The Dugdale Millions — page 200: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XX. DICK’S DISCOVERY. Dick remained at Springhill until Monday. He had hoped to have an interview with Bessie and an explanation of her mysterious note. But he was com- pelled to depart without a word from her. Wallis had gone to ‘The Larches,” on Sunday morning, promising to bring him information, but upon her re- turn, she was mysterious and uncommunicative. Pressed for an expianation, she replied that her mouth was sealed and she could tell him nothing. She assured him, however, that there was in the note no cause for despair, and that he ought to know that only a sincere interest in himself dictated its writing. Further she insisted that he must obey the note liter- ally and wait for the chance of a meeting with Bessie, when she would explain everything to his satisfaction. Forced to be content with this Dick went away early Monday morning. In the meantime Bob had conferred with his co- conspirators. He had related to them all the details of his visit and had made them understand that the success of their scheme depended upon their ef- forts; that with having found the supposed Dugdale and informed him of his prospects the Hetlow party would do no more in helping him to possession, but would from thence out assume the attitude of insist- ing upon absolute proof of identity before foregoing Miss Hetlow’s claims upon the property. That which troubled Orton Pierson and Moore most was the knowledge that the fact of the dis- 19° Comicbocl< C@ 3