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"I asked her to go straight back to her roo, Laverick, but I found her alht in Jer Morrison watched, and my reat excite lady was there who appeared to be seriously injured"

"D--d sca I could," Bellamy continued "I fetched her at once and sent her back to her house with a hospital nurse and some one to look after her The wound wasn't serious, but the fellow ainst such a child I wonder whether he'll get away"

"I should doubt it," Laverick reet drunk and blow his brains out He's a broken-spirited cur, after all"

"You'll have some lunch?" Bellamy asked

Laverick shook his head

"If you don't o on and see Miss Leneveu"

"Put me down at the club, then, and take my car on, if you will"

Laverick walked up and down the pavement outside Zoe's little house for nearly half-an-hour He had found the door closed and locked, and a neighbor had inforone out in a cab with the nurse, soo, and had not returned Laverick sent Bellamy's car back and waited Presently a four-wheel cab came round the corner and stopped in front of her house Laverick opened the door and helped Zoe out She was as white as death, and the nurse ith her was looking anxious

"You are safe, then?" sheout her hands

"Quite," he answered "You dear little girl!"

Zoe had fainted, however, and Laverick hurried out for the doctor Curiously enough, it was the sao had come to see Arthur Morrison

"She has had a bad scalp wound," he declared, "and her nervous syste serious She seems to have just escaped concussion The nurse had better stay with her for another day, at any rate"

"You are sure that it isn't serious?" Laverick asked eagerly

"Not in the least," the doctor answered dryly "I see worse wounds every day of ain to-morrow, if you like, but it really isn't necessary with the nurse on the spot"

His natural pessihtened by the fee which Laverick pressed upon hi words Laverick stayed and talked for a short time with the nurse