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Her suggestion was speedily adopted, and in a few hours the seven families in the neighborhood were removed to their asylum, together with a store of provisions and other articles essential to their comfort. Mrs. Van Alstine was the last to cross and assisted to place out of reach of the enemy, the boat in which the passage had been made.
Then the heiress cast a significant look at her cousin, who with a toss of her head rose at once and left the room, taking the precaution to remain by the door and listen, however, after she had closed it. "I am not mistaken in calling you Miss Alstine." "No, madam." "Doubtless you can guess why I am here?" "I haven't the remotest idea."
"You have not answered my question, Andrew," persisted the wife. "The lady was Miss Alstine, I think." "You think?" "Well, I suppose I know that she is. A very eccentric girl, and somewhat flighty in the upper story." "Crazed?" "That's about it, Iris." "And you have been the cause of it?" There was a look in the woman's eyes at that moment not pleasant to see.
"And Miss Alstine knows nothing of this, of your plans, your scheming to win a fortune through her?" "Certainly not. I haven't been fool enough to give myself away." The detective remained silent for a moment. Then he looked sharply into the face of Barkswell and said: "I am puzzled to know why you saved me from the tramp last night, and took me to your home and nursed me so tenderly.
The voices and even the words of the Indian raiders could be distinctly heard on the island, and as Mrs. Van Alstine gazed at the mansion untouched by the flames she rejoiced that she would now be able to give shelter to the homeless families by whom she was surrounded.
It proved a dear game, and come near landing him in prison. He did not scruple at shooting the officer who assailed him. Once he could get his fingers on the Alstine bank account, he would be able to defy the world. It was a bold and heartless scheme he was working, and hardly promised success.
He threw up the sash and called after the form, but no answer came back, and then he dropped the sash, waking his wife. "Delusion!" he muttered under his breath; and yet he trembled and was very pale. Rose Alstine did not visit the widow in her prison home for some days after her encounter with the counterfeit August Bordine.
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