D. “The thing I feel most disposed to say, Miss Stanley,” he began at last, “is that this is very sudden. “My dear,” the letter ran, “I have to tell you that your sister Gwen has offended your father very much. Little by little Sebastian gave to her the story of how she came to be abducted. She was aware of people—her aunt, her father, her fellow-students, friends, and neighbors— moving about outside this glowing secret, very much as an actor is aware of the dim audience beyond the barrier of the footlights. Those whom he retained about his person, or placed in offices of trust, were for the most part convicted felons, who, having returned from transportation before their term had expired, constituted, in his opinion, the safest agents, inasmuch as they could neither be legal evidences against him, nor withhold any portion of the spoil of which he chose to deprive them.
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