[The Midnight Passenger by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookThe Midnight Passenger CHAPTER XIV 32/35
We were schoolmates, and sisters of the heart, though our home was a very quiet one. My father was averse to all family intimacies.
The executors are ready to make the transfer of the money whenever you prove up poor Randall's will." "And I," said Witherspoon, "exact one thing in return.
I demand the right, in honor, to refund to the Trading Company all the money used by the murderer, the whole search expenses, and the double rewards.
There will be a princely fortune left for me after all, and this money so used will vindicate poor Clayton's memory from all blame for his chivalric folly." Alice Worthington bowed her head in assent, as the spirited young man proceeded. "When you see Irma Gluyas, you will know what a strange fate overtook him.
For she has been made another woman by the manly love of the poor fellow who believed in her." The Detroit lawyer was deceived by the heiress' calmness.
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