Her Faithful Knight — page 237: what you’re looking at

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Good News that Came Too Late. 233 “Mrs. Darcy Derrick’s maiden name was Dorothea Knight, and her age now would be twenty-one.” Dr. Wentworth took down her words, and later on left the house, promising to call again toward evening, and insisting upon absolute rest and quiet for his patient. Before his second visit, however, an event had occurred which did away with all possibility of that calm repose upon the necessity for which he had so strongly dwelt. This was the arrival of a second letter from the solicitors, Messrs. Searle & Glyn, brought to Lockhart Cottages by a messenger, who had received instructions to wait for an answer. The lawyers wrote: “Madam—Mr. Darcy Derrick called at our office at ten o’clock this morning with the unexpected and dis- tressing intelligence that his wife, our client, Miss Doro- thea Knight, or, to style her aright, Mrs. Darcy Derrick, died very suddenly at Lockhart Cottages on Saturday evening last at half-past eight o’clock. Mr. Derrick fur- nished us with the name of the doctor who attended her, and an exchange of telegrams with him has confirmed the sad intelligence. Mr.Derrick is desirous of attend- ing his late wife’s funeral, and we should wish a repre- sentative of our firm to be present on the occasion. Dr. Wentworth’s telegram informs us that you are prostrate with grief and seriously ill. But if you will kindly dic- tate a few words and dispatch them by the bearer of this letter, giving us the particulars as to the date and place of your sister’s interment, you would be conferring a great favor upon your obedient servants, | “SEARLE & GLYN. “To Miss Phyllis Knight.” Something of the power of the law in its cold, passion- Eomicboo cS (S@)