The Dugdale Millions — page 136: what you’re looking at

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126 THE DUGDALE MILLIONS. sharp for me. What can a woman do against two such men?’”’ ‘‘What nonsense is this?’’ sharply asked the per- plexed husband. ‘It is no nonsense! That was the heart woman with a red shawl. I’ve been waiting for her to come that I might get at the bottom of all this talk about a baby and the Barbers and the Tomlinsons and the Powerses. Oh, yes! You may think you can fool me, but you cannot. I know what is under it. You may deceive Wallis, but you cannot deceive me. What is her name?’”’ She propelled this question abruptly at Dick. Again with an effort Dick controlled himself. ‘“Her name is Jenkins,’’ he replied. ‘‘She is the eldest married daugliter of James Powers.’’ ‘Qh, she 1s,’’ exclaimed the irate lady. “And the baby, where is that?”’ “Tam not aware that she has a baby,’ Dick, inwardly convulsed. — Of course she hasnt one, if she put. 4tt aut, fer adoption to someone she doesn’t know, nor Mr. Stanton either. You wouldn’t be turning the world upside down looking for it if 1t was with her.’’ ‘‘If you are going to be silly, go into the house,”’ angrily commanded Mr. Stanton. His wife, awed by his manner and tone, obeyed, but she walked away with the air of a martyr, leaving Dick convulsed with suppressed laughter. Mr. Stanton, leading the way to the veranda, ques- tioned Dick particularly as to his talk with Mrs. Jenkins. ‘I wish I could have seen her,’’ he said. ‘‘Yet it looks as if you had elicited all she had to tell. Iam inclined to think more will be obtained from the aunt than from the box.”’ The conversation languished, and Dick asked for Wallis. ‘She ran over to see Bessie Hetlow before coming replied Comicbookkss C@ 3