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"Perhaps not; but I did, all the same." "She does not look at all like that Mrs. Vanderbeck," Mr. Palmer remarked, as he again singled out the woman, and observed her closely. "I don't know; her form is not unlike; and put a red wig on her, she might pass "
Presently a gentleman of very prepossessing appearance entered, and Ray, arising, was astonished to behold, instead of the invalid he had pictured to himself, a man in the prime of life and apparently in perfect health. He bowed politely. "Mr. Vanderbeck, I presume?" he remarked, inquiringly.
"I do not know she was an utter stranger to me never saw her before. She called herself Mrs. Vanderbeck." That was the name of the "sister" whom Mrs. Walton had told him she would send with her son, so the celebrated physician had no suspicion of foul play. "And who are you?" he asked, searching the fine face before him with increasing interest. "My name is Palmer," Ray answered.
He meant to seek an introduction, and get an opportunity to examine the stones more closely. Fifteen minutes later he stood bowing before her, as a friend presented him, and he was long in recovering from the shock which went through him as he caught the name by which she was introduced: "Mrs. Vanderbeck, allow me to present my friend, Mr. Palmer." "Pardon me. Did I understand the name Mrs.
Vanderbeck had selected on that never-to-be-forgotten day when he was decoyed into Doctor Wesselhoff's establishment and left there a prisoner, while the woman made off with her booty. "Where did you get it?" he exclaimed, while Mrs. Montague fell back among the cushions of her chair and covered her face with her trembling hands, utterly unnerved.
Vanderbeck had given as her place of residence was visited, but as in the Bently affair, it proved to be empty, and Mrs. Vanderbeck seemed to have vanished as completely as if she had been a visitant from some other sphere.
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