The Dugdale Millions — page 67: what you’re looking at

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A TALE AND A DISCOVERY. 57 that idea, even if it had not occurred to him that Mr, Stanton had no knowledge of Barber, nor Barber of Stanton. He could not imagine the meaning of it. Finally he concluded that Barber had employed some one to endeavor to draw out Mrs. Tomlinson after his own failure. *“Well, Mrs. Tomlinson,’’ after a moment’s silence, *“your caller was not Mr. Mason, for he is here now.”’ He took some papers from his pocket and handing them to her, added: ‘**Here are some papers which will prove to you I am Mr. Mason. I wish you would look at them, for I have some questions to ask which I very much desire to have answered.”’ Mrs. Tomlinson returned them after a careless everlooking, remarking that she was satisfied without them. She had trusted to her intuitions. ‘*Then,”’ said Dick, ‘‘we may goon. But first let me ask the business of the person who called last night.’’ *‘He wanted me to tell all I knew about Mr. Dug- dale.’’ This answer confirmed Dick in his belief that the caller was an agent of Barber, and when Mrs. Tom- linson went on to say that she told him all she knew, because she had nothing to conceal, and had been con- trary with ‘“‘Teddy’’ because ‘*Teddy’’ had acted as if she were bound to tell him everything because she had once been in his employ, he was still further con- vinced it was simply an effort of the old man to worm into the secrets of the case. So he proceeded to ques- tion Mrs. Tomlinson on the matters upon which he desired to be informed. The greater part of her recital was mainly confirma- tion of what he had already learned. What was new and essential was that, after Mrs. Dugdale’s death, she had cared for the child until she was compelled to go with her husband to Boston, where he had an engage- ment in atheater. Returning the next summer she CoMmicloee <S C@ 3