"There isn't a single thing I have or
ever have had in life which I wouldn't give for the chance--just a
chance--"
"And she cares for you?"
"I think that she would," he answered. "She has been brought up in a
very old-fashioned school. She knows of you."
Stella smiled a little bitterly.
"Well," she said, "I suppose I am a brute, but I am glad to know that
you can suffer. I hope you will suffer; it makes you seem more human
anyhow. But in return for your confidence I will answer the other part
of your question. The man Miller was at the Manor that afternoon.
Palliser confessed to me that he had given him some important document."
"Given him!"
"Well, sold him, then. Tony hadn't got a shilling in the world and he
would never take a halfpenny from me. He had to have money. He told me
about it that night before you came. Miller gave him five thousand
pounds for it--secret service money from one of the branches of his
party. Now you know all about it."
"Yes, I know all about it," Tallente assented, a little bitterly. "You
can take your trip to America without a single regret, Stella.
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