Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 295: what you’re looking at

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skeptical when he informed her that it was his grandfather, accompanied by his assistant and him- | Self, who had rescued her from the sinking vessel, ,}and from that time until Hazel went to Madame Hawley’s school they had been reared, as brother and sister, under the same roof. She could not understand, shesaid, why they should have practiced any deception about the matter; why Hazel should not have told the fact, and why he should not have acknowledged it when he himself came to Brighton. All this was explained to her, as it had been to others ; but she pretended toregard it as a suspicious circuinstange—perhaps: she said it was even a trumped-up story to save Hazel from disgrace and secure property that did not belong to her. She athrmed, with some vindictiveness, that even if they would now renounce their claim to the necklace, which Perey, in a tit of desperation, at last offered to do, she should refuse to withdraw the case from court, Perey and Lord Nelson finally took their leave, feeling considerably crest-fallen over the utter fail- ure of their planus to settle the affair privately ; but they hoped fora favorable verdict on the morrow, when the jury should hear Dr. Morton’s pong In spite of all Lord Nelson's efforts to keep the affair from gaining publicity, several accounts of it got into the newspapers, together with a description of the contested necklace, and also of the beautiful girl who had been accused of having stolen it, and when the hour set for continuing the case arrived, the court-room was filled to overflowing with curious and eager spectators, who were anxious to learn how the mysterious affair would be dee iighook To the dismay of Hazel’s counsel aris Prenas,