The Twin Detectives; or, The Robbers of the Tomb — page 95: what you’re looking at

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86 THE TWIN DETECTIVES. The theft of the papers was in vain! He got up and paced the floor. ‘‘T’ll have it!” he muttered, hoarsely. ‘‘Vll have it if I have to commit any crime to obtain it!” On the other side of the partition the mother was grimly contemplating the casket from which the papers had been stolen. “‘My plan works well. If all the rest goes on like this it will be all right,” she said. ‘<'l'o-morrow I’ll see Jean McLean, and if she is what I take her to be, she will be the one to work out my scheme of revenge. Ha! ha! by and by I'll tell him why I am such an unnatural mother !” hey were fearfully alike, this man and woman, who were so close together and yet so far apart. ‘“If he had been anything else but what he is, I would have had some mercy on him,” said the woman, as she turned down the gas and returned to her bed. “Oh, it was grand to see him looking at the bottle to see if I had taken the dose, and me wide awake all the time, looking*at him from under the sheet! You are smart, -Archy, my boy, but not quite smart enough to be a son of mine! Wait; Ill surprise you yet!” CHAPTER XVII. THE BLACK TRUNK. “Well, Charlie, do you know what I have made up my mind to do?” asked Mrs. Hudson, the day after Madge sent the telegram. ‘¢ No, mother.” “Well, [am going to ask Kstelle Moore to come here and live with us.” ““ Hstelle Moore? I don't think I know bbs: ‘f m cComicbooks 1€O _ _ >