Her Faithful Knight — page 311: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXX. TRACKED DOWN. An anxious week for Dorothy and Aylmer passed be- tween the opening of the inquest and the adjourned pro- ceedings. | Z Nothing of any importance was taking place either so- cially or politically in London at the time, and the “Ham- mersmith Mystery” came as a boon to newspapers’ in want of sensational “copy.’’ Dorothy’s short connection with the stage enabled the reporters to allude to the “Mysterious Death of an Actress,” and a _ life-drama, which included among its dramatis personae the heir to an Irish title and more than one member of the theatrical. profession, necessarily supplied headlines calculated to double the circulation of any judiciously conducted jour- nal. To Aylmer it was infinitely painful to hear on all sides the woman he loved and reverenced freely discussed, and to read items of information concerning every detail of her life chronicled in the newspapers. Public opinion was very strong against Darcy Derrick, but it was scarcely more favorable, on its feminine side at least, to the woman who had married the betrayer of her sister. “Of course Dorothy Knight knew all about it when she married the wretch,’ Rosa Read declared, and Rosa was but the mouthpiece of the ordinary girl who speaks without thinking. “But some women will do anything to get married, and she almost deserved to be murdered | for it.” CoOmmicoooks (Eo)