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["I THINK YOU HAVE COME TO A VERY SENSIBLE CONCLUSION"] . . . . . . Frontispiece
[AT CARDS HE HAD LOST HEAVILY]
[THE ALARM WAS GIVEN, AND THE ENGINES WERE AT ONCE SLOWED DOWN]
["WE ARE ALREADY IN FULL POSSESSION OF ALL WHICH THAT LETTER REVEALS"]
[MARY WAS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN, BUT MRS. RANGER CHANCED TO BE STANDING AT THE DOOR]
RALPH SINCLAIR'S ATONEMENT
CHAPTER I.
A BOLT FROM THE BLUE.
"Better men fared thus before thee."—MATTHEW ARNOLD.