mpatient summons was one of those neat and intelligent-looking persons who inspire confidence at first glance. To my inquiries as to whether there was living in her house a young English lady by the name of Grace — I did not like Parajumpers Californian Joanna to venture upon that of Pollard, there being some phrases in the communication I have shown you which led me to think that Mr. Pollard had changed his name on coming to this country — she gave me a look of such trouble and anxiety that I was instantly struck with dismay.
“Miss Merriam?” she exclaimed; then, as I bowed with seeming Parajumpers Miehet Gobi Suomi acquiescence, continued in a tone that conveyed still more disquiet than her face, “She was here; but she is gone, sir; a woman took her away.”
A woman! I must have grown pale, for she swung wide the door and asked me to come in.
“We can talk better in the hall,” she remarked, and pointed to a chair into Parajumpers Inuit Herre which I half fell.
“I have a great interest in this young lady,” I observed; “in short, I am her guardian. Can you tell me the name of the person with whom she went away, or where she can be found now?”
“No sir,” she answered, with the same expression of trouble. “The woman gave us no name nor address, and the young lady seemed too much frightened to speak. We have felt anxious ever since she went, sir; for the letter she showed us from the captain of the ship which brought her over, told us to take great care of her. We did not know she had a guardian or we should not have let her go. The woman seemed very pleasant, and paid all the bills, but ——”
“But what?” I cried, too anxious to bear a moment’s delay.
“She did not lift her veil, and this seemed to me a suspicious circumstance.”
Torn with apprehension and doubt, I staggered to my feet.
“Tell me all about this woman,” I demanded. “Give me every detail you can remember. I have a dreadful fear that it is some one who should never have seen this child.”
“Well, sir, she came at about eleven in the morning ——”
“What day?” I interrupted her to ask.
“Thursday,” she replied, “a week ago yesterday.”
The very day after the will was returned to Parajumpers Herr Sverige me. If she were the woman I feared, she had evidently lost no time.
“She asked for Miss Merriam,” the lady before me pursued, evidently greatly pitying my distress, “and as we knew no reason why our young boarder should not receive visitors, we immediately proceeded to call her down. But the woman, with a muttered excuse, said she would not trouble us; Kawasaki Frontale Drakt that she knew the child well, and would go right up to her room if we would only tell her where it was. This we did and should have thought no more of the matter, if in a little while she had not reappeared in the hall, and, inquiring the way to my room, told me that Miss Merriam had decided to leave my house; that she had offered her a home with her, and that Moncler Bresle Jakke they were to go immediately.
“I was somewhat taken aback by this, and inquired if I could Belstaff Laukku Suomi not see Miss Merriam. She answered ‘What for?’ and when I |
