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ful. Then she broke down and cried, her head on the back of a tall chair.
"It was my fault," she said wretchedly, "my fault. I should not have sent them the word."
After a few minutes she grew quiet. She seemed to hesitate over something, and finally determined to say it.
"You will understand better, sir, when I say that I was raised in the Harrington family. Mr. Harrington was Mr. Sullivan's wife's father!"
