Her Faithful Knight — page 312: what you’re looking at

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‘SN 308 Tracked Down. Dorothy grew hot and cold by turns when Rosa dis- cussed, as she constantly did, the ins and outs of the “Hammersmith Mystery,” but she was wise enough to keep silent on the subject. “I have nothing to say about it,” she would remark. “But surely it is better not to judge too harshly unless we know everything.” In truth there seemed little need for so much caution. Not one member of the little household at Ashgrove road appeared in any way to connect that beautiful young widow, recovering from an illness and still a little fragile and nervous, with the alleged murderess, who, with her supposed accomplice, was “wanted” for the Hammer- smith inquiry. The secret possessed by them in common drew Aylmer and Dorothy very near together. Daily it was necessary that they should meet apart from the others, either in his study or in the summer-house at the bottom of the gar- den, and discuss the latest developments of the case which, in his journalistic position, Aylmer was among the first to hear. There was no doubt that Leila Mongom- ery’s revelations had made Phyllis Knight’s guilt seem only the more probable, since it supplied a second motive, that of jealousy, for her grudge against her sister. The more the story of Phyllis’ sufferings was dwelt upon, the more natural it seemed that she would detest the woman who had become the legal wife of her child’s father. “It would be funny if it were not so horrible,” Dorothy said to Aylmer, “that they want to take me and hang me for the murder of myself. Doesn’t all this talk about me ~ as a possible murderess, all this dragging of my life to the light, lower me in your eyes?” “How should it? It is Phyllis, not you, whom they ac- cuse of murder; and what I learn about your brave, hard- cComicbooks (@)