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Carroll bitingly. Mr. Wrandall held up his hand deprecatingly. "We had an idea that an unheard of agency might accomplish more than one of the famous organisations." "Well, you see what has come of it," growled the other. "I was opposed to the reward, sir," declared Mr. Wrandall with some heat.
"But I am not Sara, Miss Wrandall," she said, in a well-remembered voice. "How do you do?" Vivian found herself looking into the face of Hetty Castleton. Instantly she extended her hand. "This IS a surprise!" she exclaimed. "When did you return? Leslie told me your plans were quite settled when he saw you in Lucerne. Oh, I see! Of course! How stupid of me. Sara sent for you."
"They cut a bone out of her nose, that's all. Brandon says her heart is weak. They were afraid of the ether. She's all right, Carroll says." "Goodness!" cried Mrs. Wrandall. One might have suspected a note of disappointment in her voice. "I shall go up to see Sara this afternoon," said Vivian calmly. "What's the number of her new apartment?" "YOU have been up to see her, of course," said Mrs.
"He isn't joking, mother," said Vivian, with a shrug of her fine shoulders. "He he MUST be," cried Mrs. Wrandall impatiently. "What did she REALLY say, Leslie?" "The only thing I remember was 'good-bye," said he, and then blew his nose violently. "Poor old Les!" said Vivian, with real feeling. "It was Sara Gooch's doing!" exclaimed Mrs. Wrandall, getting her breath at last. "Nonsense," said Mr.
They were being blown through the door into the waiting-room as she put the question. Her voice was muffled. The man in the great fur coat put his weight against the door to close it. "Yes, Mrs. Wrandall. I have done all that could be done under the circumstances. I am sorry to tell you that we still have two miles to go by motor before we reach the inn.
Or would you rather go out to the terrace?" "It's much more comfortable here, if you don't mind. I I suppose you know what it is I want to say to you. You " "Yes," she interrupted wearily; "and knowing as much, Mr. Wrandall, it would not be fair of me to let you go on." "Not fair?" he said, in honest amazement. "But, my dear, I " "Please, Mr.
At the very worst, he maintained, there could be nothing more reprehensible than a passing infatuation, long since dispelled, or perhaps a mildly sinister episode in which virtue had been triumphant and vice defeated with unpleasant results to at least one person, and that person the husband of Sara Wrandall. Pat met him at the station and drove him to the little cottage on the upper road.
Wrandall," said Smith, flushing a dull red. "You came here to give me a chance, Mr. Smith, feeling that I was actually implicated. You had a price fixed in your mind. You still have your doubts, in spite of what Mr. Wrandall says. It occurred to you that it would be worth considerable to me if the investigation went no farther.
"What the devil was there to laugh at, Brandy?" he demanded of his friend after the women had left them together on the porch a few minutes later. Hetty had gone upstairs with Mrs. Wrandall, her arm clasped tightly about the older woman's waist. "I dare say she was thinking about you falling a mile or two," said Booth pleasantly. But he was perplexed.
Smith suggests mind you, he merely suggests that the person who was to have met Wrandall in the country that night was so highly connected that she does not dare reveal herself, although absolutely innocent of the crime.
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