Her Faithful Knight — page 251: what you’re looking at

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Dorothy’s Crime. 247 what money she required, pending the necessary legal proving of her claims. “I shall be very glad, indeed, for I have hardly a shilling in the world,” said his beautiful client. And very early, very quietly, on the following morning, Dorothy and Cresswell, closely veiled and in deep mourn- ing, made their way across the waste ground to where a four-wheeled cab was waiting to take them on the first stage of their journey. Each woman was armed with a few packages and parcels, but there was no heavy lug- gage in attendance to suggest that they were “flitting,” and that Lockhart Cottages, their home during the space of nearly four years, would see their faces no more. Comichbooks (€(@) 5