The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 41: what you’re looking at

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Ts 39 THE TWIN DETECTIVES. He leant forward and whispered eagerly in her ear. Her dark face brightened, but a frown came over it again. “It is impossible,” she said, angrily. “What? Do you not see the papers?” 6é¢ No. ed ‘Look here!—and here!” He drew three or four papers from ae pockets and placed them on her knee. ‘‘What you call impossible is already accomplished. See!” A fiendish light glowed in the woman’s dark eyes. ‘“And you have done it, Archy?” she asked, exultantly. ‘¢ Yes, mother.” ‘Then you shall have money—all that you want. Iam happy to-night for the first time since I was sixteen years of age. It is a true saying, ‘revenge is sweet.’ ” ‘“We shall get money, too, mother. That thing, that perfumed doll, that imbecile new Karl of Cuthbert will pay dearly for all his past scorn.” The words were hissed .between set teeth, and his dark face looked murderous. The conference lasted till midnight, and Prescot slept at | the cottage that night, and only left it at noon the follow- ing day to proceed to the office of the White Star line of steamers, where he transaoted some business. CHAPTER V. THE SECRET SORROW. In the neat dining-room of a pretty house in Cottage Place, New York, a party were seated at supper. An elderly lady with a bright face and clear blue eyes, her son, and her niece. = GComicbooks:com