Her Faithful Knight — page 230: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XXII. GOOD NEWS THAT CAME TOO LATE. The Hon. Darcy called again at Lockhart Cottages that -day. It being Sunday, he wished to deliver his letter in person. Cresswell took it from him without a word and car- ried it upstairs to her mistress. As she passed the open door of the darkened dining-room her eyes fell upon a letter which lay unopened upon the table. It was the registered communication for which Phyllis had signed the receipt on the preceding evening. Cresswell’s tears broke out afresh at sight of it, but she resolved to give it to Dorothy on the chance that it possibly contained news which might divert her thoughts from her over- whelming grief. 3 “That dreadful man who came this morning, miss, has been again and has brought a letter for you. And here’s a registered letter that came yesterday evening after you had left. I’d forgotten all about it in our trouble.” Dorothy, who had never left her sister’s room, and could not be induced to take sleep or food since Phyllis’ death, listlessly held out her hand for the letters. It was late in the afternoon, and her head ached with long weeping and fasting. She read Darcy Derrick’s letter through with an expression of bewilderment, which final- ly changed to one of relief. “He thinks it is I, and not Phyllis, who is dead,” she said to herself, wonderingly. In truth, it had not occurred to her that he would take Eomichooks (S@)