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Faynie ended her thrilling recital by adding that she had not known, until that hour, that this man was Claire's lover, because they had refrained from mentioning the name of the man in her presence.
It had only been an instant of time since the bright blaze of the gas had illuminated the darkened corridor, yet it seemed to Faynie, standing there, white and cold as an image carved in marble, that long years had passed.
Fairfax's real reason was that the outside world would not know just how affairs stood in the family until she had had time to turn everything into cash and get over to Europe to look up another millionaire widower. On the very night that Faynie had returned so unceremoniously there had been a most thrilling scene but an hour before between Mrs. Fairfax and her daughter.
The old housekeeper had tried in vain to coax from the girl the story of where she had been while away from home. "That is my secret," Faynie would say, with a burst of bitter tears; "I shall never divulge it until the hour I lie dying." After the bogus Lester Armstrong had dispatched his letter of acceptance to Mrs.
"Anxiety makes you imagine that." "I hope it may prove as you say," replied Lester, huskily, and in an hour's time he was on his way to Beechwood and Faynie. We must now return to Faynie, and the thrilling position in which we so reluctantly left her. As the bright blaze of light illumined the corridor Faynie beheld the dark form of a man creeping toward her. "Great Scott!
Marsh to invite to her home the young man who had fallen heir to his millions, in order that her daughter Claire might win him if it were a possibility. She had succeeded in forcing Faynie to remain beneath that roof, even after informing her that she was disinherited dependent upon her stepmother by saying that it was her father's wish that she should thus remain for at least six months. Mrs.
Faynie laid a little white hand on Claire's nut-brown head. "Take care not to fall too deeply in love with this handsome stranger," she said, "for handsome men are not always good and true as they seem." "I am sure this gentleman is," declared impulsive Claire emphatically.
With a gasp of terror Faynie sprang from the couch with a single bound; but the cry she would have uttered was strangled upon her lips by the heavy hand that fell suddenly over them, pressing so tightly against them as to almost take her breath away.
"You ought not to have any scruples on that score," exclaimed Kendale, boastfully. "After leaving my amiable cousin on the night of the accident, did I not go immediately to the pretty little heiress, Faynie Fairfax, and successfully pass myself off as the lover she was waiting to elope with? And the little beauty never knew the difference."
"If my father has expressed the desire that I shall stay here six months, I I shall do so, even though it breaks my heart," Faynie had said. She kept her own apartments, refusing to come down to her meals, and Mrs. Fairfax humored this whim by ordering Faynie's meals served in her rooms.
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