His Other Wife: A Novel — page 181: what you’re looking at

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AN. ECLAIRCISSEMENT. 173 ‘‘The thing to be considered now is how to meet the sure and swift resentment of Faith’s mother, She cannot by any human possibility be kept long in ignorance of what has happened ; for, you know as well as I, that both Mrs. Foster and Miss Draper are her minions and spies, and were forced upon us for no other purpose than to re- port, not only facts, but circumstances. Unhappily, Miss Draper’s testimony cannot fail to cast suspicion on you as implicated in this. miserable business. And we both saw with what spirit the housekeeper received the news last night, modified, as it was, by my presenting the extreme probability that we should find the wanderers this morn- ing, safely housed at one of the neighboring planta- tions.” _.** Have you seen Mrs. Foster since your return?” ‘‘Yes; and told her that several of our friends had not yet returned, but that I had only been strengthened in my conviction that they would find the girl in safety.” ‘‘What does she say about it?” ‘‘Nothing. I did not actually see her, for I spoke to her on the outside of a closed door. She gave me no reply to my remarks. I cannot exactly understand her strange manner last night. One can seldom catch a glimpse of her countenance, but it seemed to me that she showed an incomprehensible degree of terror during my narration of the affair.” : ‘‘Do. you suppose they have Tecgiphied any account of it to the mother yet?” GEOmMmichoo <Si: Eco