His Other Wife: A Novel — page 343: what you’re looking at

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RACHEL’S TESTIMONY. 335 the conditions she had made with Mathew Croft, that he should receive and treat his daughter and hers as the vir- tual mistress of his hous:, and heiress of his fortune, but concealing her real connection with him under such a rep- resentation as would best secure her a distinguished posi- tion in society, and that Leda should assume the duties of chaperon to the young Jady. That so long as all of her (Rachel’s) requirements were faithfully observed and com- plied with, she would remain in such profound obscurity that not even her child should know of her hiding-place; and that, when Faith Hilary should be safely and happily settled in, life, she, the unhappy mother, would be as one dead to them all. In the meantime, the stipulations placed the household of Lucerne literally under Rachel’s supervision, by means of the:agents whom she established there as the instruments by which her will in regard to the girl were to be executed faithfully. It was furthermore agreed that Mathew Croft should at once make a deed of conveyance by which the whole of the property received from Rachel, with the accumulated legal interest, be set+ tled irrevocably upon the girl, ‘‘Faith Hilary, and her heirs forever.” This was done, and the deed consigned to the hands of Rachel Croft. At the close of these statements, Mr. Craig said: ‘In the meantime, where was your place of residence?” By this time the audience were hanging breathlessly upon every word uttered by that terrible and tragic woman, Eomicbooks: (E(@)