have burnt it,” she hissed.
“Not so, I should then have had to explain its loss.”
Her old fear came back into her eyes.
“Now I have merely to give it up and leave it to Mr. Dwight Pollard to explain it. He doubtless can.”
“My son will never betray his mother.”
“Yet he could write this letter.”
She frowned.
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“He knows me better.”
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But it was as if I had not spoken. All she seemed to hear, all, at least, that she paid the least attention to, was the promise I had made.
“You are decided, then, upon secrecy?” she asked.
“I am decided upon saying nothing that will bring your name into public notice.”
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“And the woman you saw?”
“Is your business. I have nothing to do with her.”
The shadow which till this moment rested upon her haughty brow, cleared away. With a quick gesture, from which she could not entirely exclude a betrayal of triumph, she dropped the curtain across that charming picture of bridal felicity by which she had won so much, and turning upon me with all the condescension of a conqueror, she exclaimed:
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