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Mona did not see the look which came into Crozier's face as, with one hand shading his eyes and the other grasping the banknotes which were to start him in life again, independent and self-respecting, he watched the girl riding on and on, ever ahead of the man. It was at that moment the Young Doctor entered the room, and he distracted Mona's attention for a moment.
So saying, she lit a match. "You hold this wicked old catfish letter into the flame, please, Mrs. Crozier, and keep praying all the time, and please remember that 'our little hands were never made to tear each other's eyes." Mona's small fingers were trembling as she held the fateful letter into the flame, and then in silence both watched it burn to a cinder.
Another aunt of Mona's is coming to play chaperon at 'Red Chimneys." "Oh," said Beatrice, carelessly; "then this is good-bye as well as good-night, Mrs. Hastings. I've SO enjoyed meeting you." These conventional phrases meant nothing on Beatrice's part, but it almost convulsed Patty to hear Susan thus addressed.
Mona's face was all ablaze in an instant her eyes likewise, although she was greatly surprised to learn that the young man had betrayed his liking for her to his aunt. "I trust that Mr. Hamblin has not led you to believe that I have ever encouraged any such feeling on his part," she coldly remarked.
I knew that in Mona's answer to Zenith's implied question lay my fate, and my moral doubts were not strong enough to make me do anything to keep it back.
"I'm glad the girl didn't keep the picture herself; I believe that all my previous suspicions would have been aroused if she had. It can't be that she is Mona's child, for she has always been so indifferent when I have questioned her. Possibly she may be a descendant of some other branch of the family, and does not know it.
We must have this door between these rooms opened by some means. I wonder if the key to ours would fit the lock." He arose immediately and went to try it, but it would not work. "No. I did not expect our first effort would succeed," he smilingly remarked, as he saw Mona's face fall.
"Even in spite of Mona's sarcasm, and though I do often come short of what one bearing that name should be, I am not the less determined to persevere in my endeavours to make these failures as few and far between as possible; and that any one here will intentionally attempt to frustrate these efforts I cannot believe."
A faint, hopeful smile was on Mona's face now. "What isn't never was to those that never knew," said Kitty briskly, and pushed a chair up to the table. "Now sit down and write, please." Mona sat down. Taking up a sheet of notepaper she looked at it dubiously. "Oh, what a fool I am!" said Kitty, understanding the look. "And that's what every criminal does he forgets something.
Montague commanded. Mona turned back, flushing slightly at the woman's imperiousness. "I have not been at all pleased with your deportment this evening," the woman continued, "You have been exceedingly forward for a person in your position." Mona's color deepened to a vivid scarlet at this unexpected charge.
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