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Did Sister Serena succeed in fitting the black dress I sent?" "The poor child had on a mourning dress, but I was not aware you sent it. Losing her mother seems almost to have broken her heart. Poor Ellice Darrington! Petted and fostered like a hot-house flower, and then to die a pauper in a hospital! What an awful retribution for her disobedience to her parents? There is the bell."
"Did you hear any part of the conversation between the prisoner and Gen'l Darrington?" "No, sir! I'm above the meanness of eavesdrapping." "How did you learn that she was the granddaughter of Gen'l Darrington?" "Miss Angerline, the white 'oman what mends and sews, come to the back piazer, and beckoned me to run there.
In a strident incisive voice he read from a paper on the desk before him: "At an inquisition held at X , T -county, on the twenty-seventh day of October, before me, Jeremiah Bateman, Coroner of said county, on the body of Robert Luke Darrington, there lying dead, by the jurors whose names are hereto subscribed; the said jurors upon their oath do say that Robert Luke Darrington came to his death on the night of Thursday, October twenty-sixth, by a murderous assault committed upon him by means of a heavy brass andiron.
"In a compartment of the safety deposit vault of the Bank, of which Gen'l Darrington was a large stockholder and director. His box was opened last week in presence of his adopted son, and we hoped to find perhaps a duplicate of the lost will; but there was not even a memorandum to indicate his last wishes." "Can you tell me whether Mr.
Mine is scarcely the proper hand to pour the rich stream of your possessions into his empty coffers." "I am well aware of the tie that binds your sister and Mr. Darrington." "Since when have you known it?" "No prison walls are sufficiently thick to turn the stream of gossip; it trickles, oozes through all barriers.
Strange nurses in the hospital could tell her nothing concerning the last hours of the beloved dead; and the only spot in the wide western world that seemed to belong to her, was a narrow strip of ground in a remote corner of the great cemetery, where a green mound held its square granite slab, bearing the words "Ellice Darrington Brentano."
I saw among the papers taken from the tin box and laid on the table, a large envelope marked in red ink, 'Last Will and Testament of Robert Luke Darrington'; but I never saw it afterward. I was never in that room but once; and the last and only time I ever saw General Darrington was when I passed out of the glass door, and left him standing in the middle of the room, with the tin box in his hand.
I walked to 'Elm Bluff, and after waiting a few moments was admitted to Gen'l Darrington's presence. The letter which I delivered was an appeal for one hundred dollars, and it was received with an outburst of wrath, a flood of fierce and bitter denunciation of my parents. The interview was indescribably painful, but toward its close, Gen'l Darrington relented.
The door of the vault or safe did not open on hinges, but was iron, and slid on a metal rod, which made a very peculiar squeaking sound. When she heard the noise she thought that General Darrington was so enraged that he got the will to show prisoner it was all fixed forever, against her and her mother."
"I would see adders fastened in her ears and twined around her neck sooner than those " "At least take them out of my sight; give them to Mr. Darrington. They are maddening reminders of a perished past. Now, to the last iota, I have made all possible restitution, and the account is squared; for in exchange for that life, which I am condemned as having taken, my own is the forfeit.
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