Good luck to you anyway, Vine, and do, for the next few hours, take care
of yourself."
Then Virginia heard a parting between the two men. One of them
apparently left the house, the other returned to the room from which
they had issued. Virginia did not hesitate for a moment. She passed on
tiptoe out of the room into the hall. A servant stood at the front door,
having that moment let Vine out.
"I have decided not to wait for Mr. Deane any longer," she said. "I
will call and see one of the secretaries sometime to-morrow."
The man let her out without question. She was just in time to see Vine
turn the corner of the square. She followed him breathlessly, then
paused and stopped a passing hansom.
"Coniston Mansions," she told the man. "Please go as quickly as you
can."
She was driven there, and passed quickly through the hall and entered
the lift. The commissionaire hurried up to her.
"Several people, miss, have been asking for your address since you
left," he announced.
"I will leave it before I go," she answered hurriedly.
She got out at the fifth floor, and without hesitation she walked
straight across to Norris Vine's rooms.
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