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[Zerhusen]

 could no longer bear her wrongs in silence; and, after all, she had
nothing to gain by being nice to Dr. Grayle. "I suppose you think," she
burst out angrily, "that you are making a fool of me, and that I don't
know it. But I'm not as simple as you seem to believe. I'm perfectly
well aware that there's a mystery going on, and that all these elaborate
precautions are to keep me out of it." Dr. Grayle raised his eyebrows.
"Then you are much more enlightened than I am," he returned mildly. "I'm
really quite at loss to know what you mean, Lady Gardiner." "In plain
words, I mean that you are walking me off my feet to cover the others'
escape. You know perfectly well where they are, but they've ordered you
to keep out of the way, and you are doing as you're told, like a nice,
obedient little man. I never was so abominably treated in my life." "I
can't see, even if Miss Beverly and her two relations choose to go off
for a little private sight-seeing on their own account, that either you
or I have anything to complain of," said the doctor. "We are outsiders,
and are both very well paid for our services. My opinion is that few
persons in our position receive as much consideration from their
employers as we do." Kate was so furious at this snub (which found a
vital spot) that she was literally speechless for a moment. She would
have liked to strike the impertinent little wretch who dared put her on
a level with himself; but she could hardly do that, even in Noumea. When
the wave of angry blood flowed back from her brain, and she recovered
presence of mind, she turned abruptly and walked away from the doctor.
But he was at her side again almost immediately, keeping up with her
without any appearance of haste, though she quickened her pace in spite
of fatigue, looking as cool, as serene, as if he had been taking an
afternoon stroll in Bond Street. Evidently he had torn a leaf out of
Roger Broom's book; and Kate 
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