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CHAPTER XXVI, A BURST OF SUNSHINE, As Wallis had promised herself, she wrote to Dick that she was anxious to see him on a most important matter. This letter Dick received at his room, after Jeaving Captain Lawton. Wallis seemed to be so urgent that he determined to go to her at once, and on alighting from the cars at the station at Dobbs Ferry, he found her awaiting him. ‘I made a good guess,’’ she said. ‘*‘Uncle told me that he thought you had gone to Philadelphia last evening and that you would return to-day, so I sent my letter to your home address, rather than to the office, and I thought that, upon receiving it, you would come up inthis train. I wanted to have the chance for a talk with you before we got home.’’ She then told Dick all that had occurred since he had left Springhill, and as well her suspicions as to her aunt’s connection with the burglary. It was difficult for Dick to believe that Mrs. Stan- ton had been led by her jealousy into such a compli- cation. When he found that Wallis had nothing sub- stantial upon which to base her suspicions he was at a ioss as to what course to suggest, but the final conclu- sion between them was, to do nothing in the way of making any charge against Mrs. Stanton, but to watch carefully as to what relations she might have with Harold Pierson and to prevent any further intriguing between them. ‘‘To be sure,’’ argued Dick, ‘‘all the damage she can do has been done. If your theory is correct the whole extent of the intrigue was the obtaining of that box. It was when she told him of it 252 CoOmicbookk<s C@ 3