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De Peyster flushed, as though at some disagreeable memory. "Have you learned yet whether Marie was actually a spy for Mrs. Allistair?" inquired Olivetta. "She confessed that she was getting money besides the wages I paid her. That is proof enough." "I believe it of Mrs. Allistair! She wouldn't stop at anything to win your place as social leader. But she could never fill it!"
Olivetta had mailed a few hurried notes to friends about her sudden departure for a complete rest in the utter seclusion of an unnamed spot in Maine Jack De Peyster had moved out the front door way and the windows had been boarded up the house wore the proper countenance of respectable desertion and up in her sitting-room, lighted only by little diamond panes in her thick shutters, sat Mrs.
I'll have the jewels ready very shortly, and Matilda will be in to help you as soon as she is through arranging with the servants." "Why, Cousin Caroline, what is it about Jack?" burst out Olivetta with an excited flutter after Miss Gardner had gone into the bedroom. "I hadn't heard anything of it before! Has has anything happened to him?"
"There are a dozen reporters downstairs, and no end of friends are coming from out of town to be present. And that person, whoever she is, will be here " "I tell you she's an impostor!" cried Olivetta frantically. "Don't you let her in!" "Caroline, I can't tell you how " Judge Harvey's voice, tremulous with relief at this unbelievably averted tragedy, broke off.
And after she bought it she she" Olivetta's voice rang out with hysterical resentment "she got us all into this trouble by walking into the Seine. It's the most popular pastime in Paris, to walk into the Seine. But why," ended Olivetta with a spiteful burst, "why couldn't she have amused herself in her own clothes? That's what I want to know!" "And then? What did you do?" breathed Mrs. De Peyster.
"But what are we going to do?" he cried. "Yes, what are we going to do?" echoed Mary. Concern over this new, swiftly approaching crisis for a moment took precedence of all other emotions. Judge Harvey and Mary and Jack gazed at each other, bewildered, helpless. Something had to be done, quick but what? "I tell you, don't let that impostor in!" repeated the frantic Olivetta.
I consider myself very fortunate in finding a secretary who is not above some of the duties of a lady's maid. It is a very happy combination for traveling." "She seems almost too good to be true," mused Olivetta. "She's really very pretty. I hope Jack hasn't " "Olivetta! How can you! Jack has never paid her the slightest attention, nor she him." "Pardon me, Caroline!
You go and telephone for a locksmith and the police." "All right," said Mary. "It's it's all over!" breathed Mrs. De Peyster. "Oh, oh! What shall we ever do?" wailed Olivetta, collapsing into a chair. "The police! she mustn't go!" gasped Mrs. De Peyster. "Open the door, Matilda, quick!" Then in a weak, quavering voice she called to her besiegers: "Wait!"
But if " He hesitated. "Yes if?" "If Olivetta were only to marry some one some decent fellow she'd blossom out, grow as young as she actually is and, who knows, perhaps even her hairpins might stay in." "Marry, yes. But whom?" "I've seen a few things there's a certain party and " He stumbled a bit, conscious that he was becoming indiscreet.
To have his picture displayed like that, think how it will help M. Dubois!" Mrs. De Peyster gave Olivetta a sharp look, as though she questioned the entire disinterestedness of this argument; then she considered an instant; and in the main it was her human instinct to help a struggling fellow being that dictated her decision. "Matilda, you may give the man a photograph of the picture.
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