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West felt the utter uselessness of an attempt to appeal to either. "Where is Natalie Coolidge?" he asked, his own determination hardening. "What do you propose doing with her?" Hobart's teeth exhibited themselves in a sardonic grin. "That is our business, but you can bet she'll not interfere." "And a similar answer, I presume, will apply also to my case?" "It will.
Coolidge had no fears for her social supremacy, she had reigned too long for the thought of downfall to be possible, but she was tired of being crossed and annoyed, and she purposed with one audacious blow to humble the Colonel's wife and put an end to her pretensions. The plan came to her suddenly while she talked with old Ambrosio's daughter in the street at Acoma.
"May I ask a question or two?" "Fire away; I'll answer as I please." "Who is the woman on board?" "Mary, you mean? Hobart's wife." "She came from the place on Wray Street last night in an auto?" "Yes; I brought her along myself." "Alone?" "There were two of us, Mark and I why? what are you driving at?" "Just putting some broken threads together. Then Natalie Coolidge is not on this yacht?"
In half a dozen glances to right and left Gardner Coolidge, experienced in appraising the belongings of the rich and travelled of superior taste and breeding, admitted to himself that the genius of the place must be such a woman as he would not have imagined Redfield Pepper Burns able to marry. He had not long to wait for the confirmation of his insight.
The Presbyterian Church alone has thirty-eight and the Episcopal Church about twenty, with a less number in several other denominations, and two Roman Catholic priests. Most of these labor among their own people, though the Rev. Frank Wright, a Choctaw, is well known as an evangelistic preacher and singer. One of our best-known clergymen is Rev. Sherman Coolidge, a full-blood Arapahoe.
"And just about what it was," with a laugh of relief. "Some dream you better forget about. Come along; they are waiting on us." They passed up the steps together; and into the pleasant breakfast room, where the remainder of the company were already gathered. Coolidge was again perfectly at his ease, genially greeting the guests, and had apparently already dismissed the incident from his mind.
To West this district was entirely unknown, even the street names being unfamiliar, but he learned through the conversation of the others that they were in the neighbourhood of some of the Coolidge factories, many of the surrounding houses being the homes of employees.
It was all a masterpiece of acting, so exceedingly well done, as to finally convince the young man that she was greatly in earnest as to its success. She desired Percival Coolidge to have no lingering doubt of her engagement. And, finding all opportunity of explanation denied him, he yielded to the inevitable, and, for the evening at least, silently accepted his fate.
West clasped her hands tightly, his voice sunk to a whisper. "She is your sister, Natalie," he asserted soberly, "Your twin sister." Her unbelieving eyes swept to his face. "My sister; my twin sister? But I had none." "Yes, but you did," he insisted gently. "You never knew it, but Percival Coolidge did. This was his devilish scheme, plotted years ago when you were born.
"No, Miss Natalie," he protested stoutly, moved by her agitation. "The cause is a mystery, and who did it equally mysterious. The evidence thus far unearthed is all circumstantial." "Then why did you come out here searching for Hobart?" "Because of his strange meeting with Percival Coolidge the very day of his death; because his sudden disappearance furnished the only clue."
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