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Updated: June 5, 2025
Hurried footsteps thumped along the hall within, and a weazened, hunch backed lad smiled eagerly in the doorway. "Greeting to thee, José." Willa spoke in soft, liquid Spanish. "I have come to tell thee that we are safe here no longer. We must seek another casa this very day."
When they found you was goin' to let byegones be byegones, and give 'em a chance to get back the money they'd lost, it would have done you good to see the way they came around here, trying to do something for their dear young relation!" Willa smiled faintly. "I wish I might have seen my cousins before they went North."
He's held me under his thumb ever since, and when he got in town a few days ago he sent for me and forced me to try to get a line on this Tia Juana woman through you. I hated it, Willa, but, God! what could I do?" "What you are going to do now." Willa rose with decision. "You're going to Mason North at once, and make a clean breast of the whole thing." "I couldn't!
"I shall tell Willa quite plainly that we and our friends are not interested in her past but only in what she is and may become. She appears to have at least a glimmering of sense and she must soon perceive for herself how disgraceful the whole unfortunate affair would seem to outsiders." She paused. "There is something that I do not quite understand about Willa.
A slim, girlish, heavily-veiled figure alighted, and at sight of the men who accompanied her, Starr Wiley emitted a second oath. They paused in the doorway and with a sudden movement the girl tore off her veil. There was a moment of electrified silence, broken by a little cry from Angie. "It's Willa! That impostor, I mean " "No!" Kearn Thode, the second of the newcomers, advanced to Mason North.
"I had the pleasure of seeing the other victim of that motor accident," Willa remarked demurely. "He was even less prepossessing than usual. I I knew something of what occurred as I think you could understand from my note. I think that I have again to thank you for your championship."
He paused, and Willa, too, was silent, but she feared that the very beating of her heart would be audible to his ears. The dreamy waltz had given way to the syncopation of a fox-trot, yet neither was aware of the passing minutes. "I was blind in Limasito!" he went on.
"It was signed to the adoption agreement he and the trapper, Hillery, made out when he took her in place of the real Willa. The governor showed me the paper and there it was in black and white: Geoff Abercrombie." "Abercrombie!" Kearn Thode seized the other's arm in a convulsive grip which made the steering-wheel jerk. "You're sure you're sure of the name, Win?" "Dead sure!
"Not wholly because he had taken a liking to Willa Murdaugh, however. Why blink the facts, Mr. Halstead? It is plain on the face of it that he must have looked up the real Willa's parentage and connections, and realized that the storm had robbed him of a potential heiress in whose probable inheritance he would sometime have shared " "That is a lie."
She broke off in sudden confusion, and he drew a swift breath. "You were yourself, and I told you that nothing else mattered." His tone was very low. "But I'm something else, now." There was a note of shy, wistful eagerness in her voice. "I I'm Willa Murdaugh and that seems to mean a lot, up in New York. I'm not just Gentleman Geoff's Billie, I'm going to be a lady, like your sister "
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