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CHAPTER XXXVIII.
Phillipa "did not returni to Alan's office with the letter in any degree of haste. She wished him to grow excited with suspense, for it was her intention to make him as furious as she could.
When she did come in, both he and Bernadine were waiting in a silence that in itself showed the Under-nourished strain upon their nerves. They did not want any more words at that moment, for enough had been said
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Furs and hats, the money that would buy them, had seemed to her conscious mind the only difference beween her and Natalie.
While all the time she had been subcon- sciously feeding on the bitterness of knowing that she could never reach Natalie's plane. To be her equal she must drag Natalie down,
She desired this consciously, but she forgot, for the moment, that no one could lower Natalle, but Natalie herself. She was lustful to see. Natalie branded, to see the "fine to fill each with consternation.
lady whose only sin heretofore Bernadine asked about the stock had been jealousy, accused and con- she intended him to buy for her.victed of criminally indulging that Alan knew, without the necessity jealously.. of referring to figures, that it bad soared 30 points before the market closed. Its rise had been the out- standing market feature of the day. Bernadine gasped, then he told her what had happened to it. With- aut boshating to sum up the gain that would have been hers, had the sick been bought for her, she knew that she had lost a tidy lit
But she dared not utter a word to further the expose. She turned first hot, then cold, with impatience as Bernadine continued to stand staring at the letter.
She wanted to cry out: course you didn't write it. you see? Natalie did it!".
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"All seven people. In both cars were injured. It is a wonder ne one was killed.
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William Flowers, of Clapham, ed. She was very much dia- said he was driving a car with his tressed and alarmed for the fate of brother and his fiance on his pro- the tubes of cultures. per side of the Kingston by-pass "If anyone were to sniff them when Durand approached at a ter-even-I myself would never dare rific speed and crashed into him. to do. so he would become infect- "I suggest it was doing 70 miles ed," said Miss Chevassut. "They an hour," he added.
were stopped only by wads of Police-constable Seaking said cotton-wook he found seven people, the occu- "If the thieves. had taken the pants of both cars, lying "all over stopper out or thrown them down an Perhaps her avid eagerness com- the road." Three were women, of area I would not like to have an- municated itself to Bernadine, for whom two were unconscious. All swered for the consequences." the latter suddenly looked over at were taken to hospital. Both cars Her car was specially fitted for atvin Alan knew it too, but his thoughts her. Phillipa felt the penetration were wrecked.
carrying these tubes and for carry-Boo Agros London went beyard Bernad.ne's. She of her glance. It brought her up Durand said his speed was not surgical instruments. cepted the loss as hers, but it was sharp, warned her to guard her- more than 40 miles an hour. He The car, with the tubes intact, calcatta Manila
one else, admitted that his car was a rac. was found in the evening abandon-Canton a blow-the had countet eavily self. Bernadine, if no on te money and her pale, drawn might suspect her, she thought.
ing car, capable of doing 86 miles ed in Orchard-street, Islington. For It was plain that Bernadine | an hour on the road. He had raced' features revealed what it meant to ter.
knew someone had changed her at Brooklands. letter.
tle fortare.
Phillipa remembered, now that
Ala. d not accept the loss as ne should be right, and they had bought the wrong, stock her mind was functioning more she entered the office.
• She knew for bra. count-n steek, which al- normally, that she had no reason
neveral ready had fallen
points that is, no reason that she want-that as long as the guilt had not since morning-he woul
makeed to appear to Alan or Bernadine. been fastened upon any one per- son, ahe as well as all the others, good the ass. A the paper loss to be waiting there. as well.
must come in for a share of sus- Dicion.
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Immodestly dressed women will Curadyin-her-ack of fairs asked, to cover herself.
She felt she could go through be rigorously excluded from the not Phillipa had
"Yes," he said shortly, his eyes with it safely. For an instant or famous cathedral of Lisieux, ac- thought of this contingency. She on Bernadine. Phillipa turned ab had realized Alan would repay Berruptly and left the room, as though two, when Bernadine stood at the nadine for any actual loss she had she had merely been waiting for window with the letter, she had been afraid her work was so clever suffered, but that might not be his permission to go. serious. It was the fact that Ber-
"What is it?" Alan asked, when Alan would not believe-Bernadine's nadine was deprived of the oppor- Phillipa had closed the door be-statement that she had not written tunity that had given her so much hind her.
She was glad to have that point satisfaction.
Bernadine came over, the let-cleared up, and Alan started on the She, too, had watched the stock-
before her."1 investigation that must naturally ticker with growing uneasiness that ter held out day. She did not want Alan's loss hate to say it," she began: "but I
"Miss West," he began abruptly. to be too great. But her realiza didn't write all that is in this let-There is something wrong with tion of the responsibility she placeder, Alan." upon him had come after she made
few together. Mrs. Lamont's letter. I must know. the chance, and she would not give "What's wrong with it?" he asked who could have handled it after it up her scheme to protect him, tensely. He had been observing arrived at this office.","
"Why, I had it, Mr. Converse," Well, there was one good thing her while she pored over the let Phillipa, replied levelly. "It was
Natalie'ster,
changes of her features. He was brought to me, and I left it in here, certain she had made an impor-in your desk."
Was it taken out again"," tant discovery.
"I don't think so." "Well, then. here?"
about it the more
"crime." (Phillipa smiled over the word) cost Alan, the less he would feet bound to give her-if he gave her anything-when a property set- tlement was made between them, Natalie, Phillipa reasoned, would not dare to sue for more than Alan might feel she should have. Not with her criminal interference" exposed.
Phillipa's face was blank when
Alan's
brows
the watching
expressive
"The name of the stock 1 wrote has been erased, and another put in." Bernadine answered Antly.
Alan took the letter, almost snatching it. "Are you sure?" he cried.
"Yes," Bernadine replied. "And Alan, it was done after I mailed she handed Bernadine's letter to it, for I dropped it in a box my-
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Bernadine went swiftly to Alan's side, and read the letter with him. Her eyes became glued to the page, when they came upon the substi-
Alan's face was white. "But tution Phillipa had made. Her couldn't you have been so tired you vocal expression of amazement wrote the wrong stock, Bernadine?" froze in her throat. She could scarcely believe that there, before he appealed helplessly. her, was the name of the stock Alan said he had bought there; in her letter!-in her handwriting! "You see, Bernadine," he said, putting the letter into her clutch ing hand, there it is." He felt dreadfully sorry for her. How, in heaven's name, could the have |FACIAL MASSAGE||made such a costly mistake?
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"I tell you I didn't, Alan. Some- one has done this, and it must have been right here in your office. Oh, who could it have been?" she added wildly.
Their eyes met, and though Ber- nadine's expression of utter be wilderment did not change, Alan's face slowly coloured under her gaze. "You do not seem to suspect me?" he remarked bitterly.
"Alan!"
For a moment silence. Then: "Thank you, Bernadine," he said. quietly. For her voice had car- ried complete conviction of his hon- for his doubting her faith in him.
she knew that she was indisputably esty, as well as deepest reproach sane when she wrote that letter. And she had not-she would swear to it written in the name that was there.
"But you see, don't you, how I might have taken advantage of your. tip?" he pressed on.
"Yes, but suppose you had want-
Phillipa augh. her underlip be- tween her teeth and held it sharp-ed to play it yourself; would that Iv. Her eyes were ferret-like at have made it necessary to leave me
that moment. Happily for her, Alan out?" did not glare at her, being iotally oblivious of her presence.
"No," Alan had to agree.. Bernadine sank into a chair. She saw before her, almost within "Someone with a motive did it," her, reach now, the quarry he she said. "But who? And why?" wanted to crush. All the coal aloof-
"Well,"--Alan's lips were grimly ness, all the immaculate beauty, all compressed "if it was done by any the superiority of breeding and cul-ne in my employ, I'll find out who ture that were Natalie's would soon it is. He reached out to touch be dragged in the dust..
Phillipa's bell.
She was like a jungle cat on "Wait." Bernadine extended a the limb of a jungle-shrouded tree, hand to stop him. "Hadn't we bet- ready to pounce upon her prey ter talk it over a little first?" She had wanted Alan before-for "But I wish to ask Miss West his ability to make money, and, be-who had access to the letter," Alan
cause he had more personal appen | said." for her than any other man she might have married, but now the feeling uppermost in her mind was one of hatred for Natalie.
It was the envy of one on a
"Miss West herself is an employes here," Bernadine reminded him.
Alan hesitated.
"Yes, I know," Bernadine said; "it will be horrible to put them un-
lower plane of life for one on der suspicion one by one. Wouldn't
higher. But this Phillipa had never
it be better to try to think who.
admitted to herself. She had could have done it?" wanted to take Natalie's place, and, "But I must know who had the come into the office, dressed in ex-letter," Alan insisted. pensive furs and French chapeaux. “I suppose so," Bernadine agreed, because she had thought it would and Alan pressed the button. thrill her as she believed it thrilled
Phillipa, prepared for the sum- Natalie.
mons, was outwardly calm when
follow.
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