His Other Wife: A Novel — page 20: what you’re looking at

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12 SLEEPING BEAUTY. evening announcing the conclusion of the business to my client.” ‘©Of course I shall take the papers if you desire it; but I don’t quite see how my performance of that odious duty is to confer a favor on Mrs. Morgan.” ‘‘Simply on the ground that a sick child would prefer to take its physic from any other hand than the doctor's.” Mr. Croft gave a low chuckle of satirical mirth as he uttered this grim pleasantry. ‘‘How much of the purchase money will the widow have after her debts are paid?” asked Warren, as he refolded the legal scrip which transferred the Lucerne property to an alien and a stranger. ‘‘Not a cent; it all goes to mortgagees.” ‘* What is to become of these women then?” ‘«That is not my affair, nor yours, I think.” Evidently the senicr lawyer meant to close the dis- cussion by the last remark, which was accented with that insolence of power that coarse natures love to assume toward their dependents. Duly abhorring the mission imposed upon him, yet having no just reason to refuse it, young Warren set out to perform it. As he had stated, he had no personal knowledge what- ever of the parties concerned in the transaction, and had - “never set his eyes on either of the ladies. Mrs. Morgan and her daughter had been residing at the : North during several years, and had only recently returned Ye iGO 3 “comicbooks