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"Most decidedly," answered Mrs. Salvey with emphasis. "And not only is she better, but can now stand she has not been able to do that in ten years." "It's a lie!" shouted Rob Roland, so angered as to forget himself entirely. "She is a hopeless cripple." "Have you any witness?" asked the attorney of Mrs.
Jack had told Cora all this, trying to make it a matter of small importance, and laughing at Rob Roland's initial performance, as Jack put it; but Cora felt that it was no laughing matter, and that at least the happiness of two persons Mrs. Salvey and her delicate little daughter was involved. Cora and Jack were on the road, and Jack had cranked up.
Salvey, but the child did not otherwise resemble her mother. It was evident that the name Wren fitted her well so small, so sweet, so timid, and with such a whispering voice! Then, her eyes were brown, her hair was brown and, in spite of ill-health, there was a gleam of color in her delicate cheeks. "What's this?" asked Cora, stepping over to the child and touching a book in her lap.
Salvey, with the will in their possession, they were enabled to get control of a comfortable income, and Wren could be taken to a health resort to fully recover her strength. Sid Wilcox and Rob Roland were not prosecuted for their mean parts in the transactions, as it was desired to have as little publicity as possible.
But the others seemed to take the matter as the most ordinary occurrence, and seemed ,scarcely interested. "This child," went on the agent, "is a cripple" again Cecilia wanted to shout "and mentally deficient." "That is false!" cried Mrs. Salvey. "She is mentally brilliant." "One minute, madam," said the judge gently.
I heard her name mentioned in court this morning. Is she a friend of yours?" "Yes, indeed!" exclaimed Cora, now alarmed. "What could be said of Cecilia Thayer?" "Why, she has been on very intimate terms with the Salvey child, and lawyers devise all sorts of schemes, you know, to meet their own ends. It was hinted that Miss Thayer might know where the missing promise book was."
She resumed reading the promise: "`If ever I do discover this table I also promise to notify Wren Salvey immediately. Then you sign," she said. "There are pen and ink. Mother always keeps them in the sitting-room for me." Belle took the book. "You must have a great many callers," she remarked, taking up the pen to sign. "Oh, I take my book with me every time I go out," said Wren.
We will report to the court, and make any desired arrangements to satisfy the mother." Turn Wren over to a public society! This, then, was the motive those Rolands wanted to get the little one away from her own mother. "Mrs. Salvey," called the judge, and the white-faced woman stood up. As she did so, Mr. Reed, the lawyer, advanced to a seat quite close to that occupied by the judge.
I am spoiling the effect: "`Of course you have the child safe," she read, "`and no one questions your ability to care for her. All the little clandestine trips which you and your friend made to the Salvey cottage happened to have been observed. Just hear the boy! Happened to have been observed, when I knew he was watching saw him on more than one occasion."
I know the whole scheme. Your brother Jack is well, he is quite clever, but not clever enough to cover up his tracks." He grasped Cora's arm and actually dragged her to him. "Don't you know that Cissy Thayer and Jack Kimball are suspected of abduction? That Wren Salvey has been stolen-stolen, do you hear?" Uproarious laughter from the girls with the wild flowers aroused Cora.
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