CHAPTER XIV.
IRMA GLUYAS.
It was four days after the sailing of the secret mission of justice when Witherspoon said adieu to Miss Alice Worthington at the Forty-second Street station.

With a wise forethought, the young lawyer had succeeded in his innocent ruse to distract attention.
Mr.Lemuel Boardman not only called the young heiress back to Detroit, for the probate of her father's will, but sent on his wife as a courteous convoy to make sure of the girl wife's acquiescence.
It was none too soon.

For a haggard anxiety now drew lines upon the heiress' fair brow.

News from the pursuers could only be expected in a fortnight, and Witherspoon feared the strain of a momentous secret upon the young beauty's nerves.

Her soul longed for Randall Clayton's complete vindication.