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Updated: May 16, 2025
I knew that I was merely being rude, and the consciousness of this was not uplifting. At the luncheon hour the influx of shoppers gives the Tyringham a cheery tone, and all about us were people apparently conversing sanely and happily. The appearance of Uncle Bash's ghost in the familiar dining-room would have been a welcome diversion.
All Torrence knows of the subsequent proceedings is what he got in official reports of Uncle Bash's death from the consul-general at Tokyo. He was buried over there and the life-insurance companies were rather fussy about the legal proof, Torry says. Whether the widow expects to come to America ultimately or will keep moving through the Orient marrying husbands and burying them is a dark mystery.
It was at the tip of my tongue to say that the loss of her companionship was even more grievous; but nothing in her manner invited such a comment. Her grave moods were to be respected, and she talked for some time of Uncle Bash's life in the East, of his short illness and quite unexpected death. "But I'm keeping you," she exclaimed suddenly, jumping down from the wall.
I immediately dictated this reply: "Take first train East and come to me at Barton as quickly as possible. Hope to have news for you." I then jotted down on a scratch pad this memorandum: "The young woman representing herself as Mrs. Bashford and now established in my uncle's house is one or all of the following persons: 1. Uncle Bash's widow. 2. An impostor. 3.
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