8/18 It's Lucy: and yet it isn't Lucy." "Who is Eliza Parsons ?" "She refuses to say where she came from. But it seems she arrived at Elmhurst only a day or two after Lucy disappeared from home. It's that coincidence that makes me doubt the evidence of my own senses." "Who hires the servants here ?" "I don't know, sir." Mr.Burke abandoned the conversation, then, and confined his gaze to the landscape as it showed through the window. Tom busied himself addressing circulars of instruction to the Republicans who were to work at the polling places. This was Saturday, and the election was to be on the following Tuesday. |