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In fact, belated but seemingly irrefutable documentary evidence appears to prove that you you are not Willa Murdaugh!" The girl stood like a statue, but from behind her Mrs. Halstead gasped convulsively, and there came a little squeal in Angie's treble tones. "Sit down, my dear." Ripley Halstead drew forward a chair and Willa sank obediently into it, her eyes never leaving those of the attorney.
"It's a wonder his sly wits didn't grasp the fact that I wouldn't prosecute, because of his father, but I might have started something I couldn't stop short of a scandal if the check had been put through and I not known he was at the bottom of it." "He was afraid," Willa explained simply.
I did not think to watch her, she did not even glance toward the window! Could I know what she meditated?" "What is it?" Willa seized the woman's arm and shook it convulsively. "What has happened to Señora Reyes? Tell me!" All at once a frail, crooked little form catapulted itself down the stairway and fell, sobbing, at the girl's feet. "Señorita! Señorita Billie! The grandmama has vanished!
What has happened, anyway, in regard to that affair? Until the Halsteads and North have proved the validity of the papers they won't make any premature announcement, of course, and I'm only supposed to share the knowledge, common in their circle, that Willa Murdaugh has gone to spend the winter in the South."
"Who?" North rose hurriedly. "What is it, Ripley? What has happened?" "Willa. She's gone!" Ripley Halstead dropped despondently into a chair beside the desk. "Here's the note the poor, proud little thing left behind her. Mason, I feel as if, between us, we've given her a beastly, rotten deal." But the attorney did not heed the final observation.
"You will permit me to have photographic copies of each of these papers, Mr. North?" Willa asked, when the last had been laid aside. "Certainly, my child." The attorney's voice was suspiciously husky. "Allow me to assure you that there will be no hurry, of course. It will take some weeks to verify and substantiate this evidence, and in the meantime "
Somehow, you make me feel as if that girl never existed, and I don't know that I like it. She might have been a real pal, but you are much too stunning and gorgeous for one to dare such a thought." "I don't quite know which the real girl is." Willa eyed him gravely.
Willa gave her hair a final twist and turned from the mirror. "I am honestly sorry Kearn Thode missed those dances with you to-night, but it really wasn't my fault " "Do you suppose I wanted to dance with him?" Angie interrupted in immense scorn.
"Your loyalty is very touching, dear child, and I would be the last to impugn it." Mrs. Halstead put two rigid dutiful arms about her. "Your clothes are a mere detail which we will take up later. You must go to bed now, and sleep." Willa stumbled from the room with a sense of baffled defeat as if she had incontinently butted against a wall of granite.
North was far too agitated to take heed. "This will kill your Cousin Irene !" "I expect it would," she interposed soberly. "But she will never know it, Mr. North. What I tell you now must never go beyond this room." Forthwith, Willa related the whole story just as it had fallen from Vernon's unhappy lips, and the attorney listened in consternation.
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