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Next moment Mona's mother was saying: "I have been trying to thank Mr. Fort for what he did yesterday. It was a remarkably brave thing!" "Indeed it was," declared Mona, with feeling. "And yet, try as I might last night, I was unable to make him see that it was anything out of the ordinary, mother." "Why, of course," protested the athlete carelessly. "There was nothing brave about it.
"Impossible!" the amazed proprietor asserted; "no trunk had been removed from Number Eleven, and no young lady had left the house that morning." Louis angrily insisted that there had, and in company with the landlord and the interpreter, he returned to Mona's room to prove his statement.
Ray had been very exultant over the finding of that certificate in Mrs. Montague's boudoir, and had anticipated much pleasure in beholding Mona's joy when he should tell her the glorious news. But now great heavens! what was he to think? Then the suspicion came to him, with another great shock, and like a revelation, that it was all a plot; that Mrs.
Receiving Mona's dispatch just before the southward mail closed, he had hastily inclosed the piece of cloth, with a few words, in an envelope, and so there was no delay. She was certain, as she examined it, that it was exactly the same color as the dress she had seen the day before, and reasonably sure regarding the texture; but the great question now to be answered was: Would it fit the rent?
Seeing Mona's agitation changing to choler, the Young Doctor intervened. He did not know Kitty was purposely stinging Crozier's unhappy little consort, so that she should be put upon her mettle to do the thing without bungling. "You can trust Mrs. Crozier to act carefully; but what exactly do you mean? I judge that Mrs.
Just from the way you say that, I know you don't like her." Patty was dismayed. If she didn't altogether like Daisy, she had no wish to have other people aware of the fact. "Oh, Jack, don't be mean. I DO like her." "No, you don't; at least, not very much. She isn't your style." "Well, then, if you think that, don't say it. I MUST like Mona's guests." "Yes, of course.
Here, lying on a couch, was a man whom the doctor soon identified. He was none other than Mona's patient, Eklan Norbith, the commission's deputy in Calastia. He was a burly, dark-featured fellow; and even though rigid in his plaster cast, he looked competent and formidable. "Ernol," said he in a heavy, domineering voice, "there is no need to state the case to a man of your intelligence.
Patty expected to go over to Mona's at five o'clock, but at about four Mona herself came flying over to "The Pebbles." She waved a yellow telegram, and before Patty heard what was in it, she divined that Mrs. Parsons had again postponed her arrival. And this was the truth. "Doctor fears sunstroke.
Dinsmore was sitting before his desk, but reclining in his chair, his head thrown back against the soft, bright head-rest, the work of Mona's skillful fingers. "He has fallen asleep," said the fair girl, as she went to his side and laid her hand gently upon his shoulder. "Uncle Walter," she called, "why did you sit up for me?
Corbin had been to her to question her, and had aroused her suspicions that she was Mona Montague, and she was plotting to marry her to her nephew in order to keep her fortune in the family, and thus tie Mona's hands to render her incapable of mischief.
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