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To Grace it seemed but yesterday since she had given the testimony that sent Henry Hammond's accomplice to prison for a term of seven years in the state penitentiary. Seven years! It had been only four years since that memorable occasion. Perhaps the man had been released earlier for good behavior, or perhaps Grace's heart beat a trifle faster he had escaped.
She made a sudden dart forward, and seizing Hammond's hand, squeezed it passionately between both her own. "And Miss Oliphant does not think of you as a thief," continued Hammond. "I don't know I can't say." "You have no right to be so unjust to her," he replied with fervor. "I don't care so much for the opinion of the others now," said Prissie; "you believe in me."
Hammond's lawyer could not do all Mr. Hammond expected," sighed Ruth. "The picture will be ruined." "I never heard of such a thing," cried Helen angrily. "I'd like to know what sort of courts and judges they have up here in these woods?" But Ruth wanted to know more. She held Wonota back as she would have stepped into the canoe. "Wait," she urged. "Tell me more, Totantora.
You are going to Henry Hammond's office, aren't you?" "Yes," said Grace, surprised at the accuracy of Eleanor's guess, "I am." "And you are going there about the money that he stole from Marian. Am I right!" "You are," answered Grace truthfully. "But how did you know?" "Because," said Eleanor quietly, "I intended going there myself." "Then you think that " began Grace.
You heerd all about Miss Hammond's cowboy outfit stoppin' drinkin' an' cussin' an' packin' guns. They've took on religion an' decent livin', an' sure they'll be easy to hobble an' drive to jail. Hawe, listen. There was a good an' noble an be-ootiful woman come out of the East somewheres, an' she brought a lot of sunshine an' happiness an' new idees into the tough lives of cowboys.
"I had never thought of that," said Pamela. "I suppose she chose what should be her work, and what should be Miss Hammond's." "Then she must be a good sort to have given all the nicest things to others to do, and have kept all the dull ones for herself," said Kitty, with the frankness with which schoolgirls discuss their elders in private.
Hammond's seeming doubt not of her truthfulness but of her wisdom had shaken the girl's belief in herself. It was a strange situation, indeed. She thought of the woman she had found wandering about the mountain in the storm who had lost control of both her nerves and her mind, and Ruth wondered if it could be possible that she, too, was on the verge of becoming a nervous wreck.
Sent out to nurse as soon as born, the nurse had in her charge another babe, and this last was the child who had died and been buried as Matilda Hammond's. The elder Losely went on to stammer out a hope that his son was not at the time aware of the fraudulent exchange, but had been deceived by the nurse that it had not been a premeditated imposture of his own to obtain his wife's fortune.
Since her departure from the parsonage, Mrs. Murray had never written to her; but through Mr. Hammond's and Huldah's letters, Edna learned that Mr. Murray was the officiating minister in the church which he had built in his boyhood; and now and then the old pastor painted pictures of life at Le Bocage, that brought happy tears to the orphan's eyes.
I expect you to find the missing bullet which will settle the fact that murder and not suicide ended George Hammond's life. If you cannot, then a long litigation awaits this poor widow, ending, as such litigation usually does, in favour of the stronger party. There's the alternative. If you once saw her " "But that's what I'm not willing to do.
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