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Updated: June 7, 2025
Third, a guest staying in the house, who has already appeared in these pages under the name of Horace Holmcroft attached to the German army as war correspondent of an English newspaper. Lady Janet Roy needs but little introduction. Everybody with the slightest pretension to experience in London society knows Lady Janet Roy. Who has not heard of her old lace and her priceless rubies?
Her hands dropped on her lap; her head sank back wearily on the cushions at the head of the sofa. There was a dazed sensation in her: her mind felt stunned. She wondered vacantly whether she was awake or dreaming. Had she really said the word which pledged her to marry Horace Holmcroft in a fortnight? A fortnight!
Ignatius Wetzel stood her friend for once. His croaking voice filled the empty gap of silence exactly at the right time. He doggedly held the handkerchief under her eyes. He obstinately repeated: "Mercy Merrick is an English name. Is it not so?" Horace Holmcroft looked up from the table. "Mercy Merrick?" he said. "Who is Mercy Merrick?" Surgeon Wetzel pointed to the corpse on the bed.
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