emancipation at all. When we have succeeded in persuading
Without waiting to be answered, she turned back to the door, and left us.
"For heaven's sake, sir, allow me to go!"
"On no account, Madame Fontaine. If you won't remain here, in justice to yourself, remain as a favor to me."
When I opened my bedroom door the next morning, the widow and Mr. Keller were on the landing outside, and those were the words exchanged between them.
Mr. Keller approached, and spoke to me.
"What do you know, David, about the disappearance of Mr. Engelman?"
"Disappearance?" I repeated. "I was with him yesterday evening--and I bade him good-night in his own room."
"He must have left the house before the servants were up this morning," said Mr. Keller. "Read that."
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