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"She does conceal them; I have no more doubt of it than I have of my standing here; but I must know it before I shall feel ready to call the attention of the police to her." "Yes, we should both know it. Poor girl! poor girl! to be suspected of a crime! How great must have been her temptation!" "I can manage this matter, Miss Althorpe, if you will entrust it to me." "How, Miss Butterworth?"
Of course she is much younger than I some say she is only twenty-three; but a lady is a lady at any age, and Ella Althorpe might be a model for a much older woman than myself. The room in which we were seated was a large one, and though I could hear Mr. Stone's voice in the adjoining apartment, I did not fear to broach the subject I had come to discuss.
Ah, now I could see what explanation this wary old detective gave himself of my visits to Miss Althorpe, and began to hug myself in anticipation of my coming triumph over him. "The place did not fit her, for Miss Stapleton only shone in the society of men; but Mr.
"To-morrow." At that I left him. I did not return immediately to Miss Althorpe. I visited Cox's millinery store, Mrs. Desberger's house, and the offices of the various city railways.
"But perhaps you are only unfortunate," suggested Miss Althorpe, with an almost angelic look of pity I don't often see angels in women. "If that is so, God forbid that you should leave my protection or my house. What do you say, Miss Oliver?" "That you are God's messenger to me," burst from the other, as if her tongue had been suddenly loosed.
"You look like one accustomed to tell the truth," proceeded Miss Althorpe. "Do you not think you have made some mistake, Miss Butterworth?" she asked, approaching me with an ingenuous smile. I had forgotten to caution her not to make use of my name, and when it fell from her lips I looked to see her unhappy companion recoil from me with a scream.
But it was not an untroubled one, and it was with difficulty I met her eyes when she asked if they were coming for her that day, and if she could see Miss Althorpe before she left. As she was not yet able to leave her bed I could easily answer her first question, but I knew too little of Mr. Gryce's intentions to be able to reply to the second.
Might not Miss Althorpe have accorded him this pleasure out of the pure goodness of her heart? I did not look at anybody else, however, after once my eyes fell upon him, but continued to watch his expression, which was non-commital, though a little anxious for one engaged in a purely social function.
But I was in a mood to transgress all rules and even to forget the rights of lovers. Besides, much is forgiven a woman of my stamp, especially by a person of the good sense and amiability of Miss Althorpe. That I was not mistaken in my calculations was evident from the greeting I received.
"You are right to stop there," I interposed, and then paused, feeling that I had forced a situation which I hardly knew how to handle. The instant's pause she had given herself seemed to restore her self-possession. Leaving me, she moved towards Miss Althorpe. "I don't know who this lady is," said she, "or what her errand here with me may mean.
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