Her Faithful Knight — page 233: what you’re looking at

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Good News that Came Too Late. 229 Derrick, Lord Derrick’s brother, called at our office and informed us, first, that he had married Miss Dorothea Knight at St. James- Church, Plymouth, in September of last year, and, second, that family quarrels had parted him from his wife, to whom he was very deeply attached, but whose present address he had only just succeeded in discovering. We are, therefore, sending this letter, registered, to the address with which he furnished us, and, should this reach you, we must beg you to at once communicate with us at our office. “Mr. Derrick informed us that he had reason to be- lieve that your present circumstances were somewhat straitened, and that you would be more likely to give our representative an interview if you knew the nature of the business upon which we wish to confer with you. We have much pleasure, therefore, in informing you that by the will of our late client, Mrs. Julius Knight, the great bulk of her property, including the freehold residence at 37 Belvedere Gardens, with furniture, plate, horses and carriages, a collection of valuable jewelry and investments yielding an income of ten thousand pounds yearly, is left unconditionally to her grand-niece and god-child, Doro- thea Knight, orphan daughter of the late Harold Everett Knight, formerly of Petersham Lodge and the Stock Ex- change.” | Dorothy put down the letter and drew a deep breath. So many things had happened since that Sunday after- noon in early summer when she had sought out her great- aunt in order to plead for Phyllis that she had almost forgotten the incident. Her aunt had said things against her sister, and she had retorted wrathfully, and had left the house. And now Aunt Dorothea had atoned in her own way for the pain she had caused her niece that after- noon. Hers had been such a vivacious, dominant per- sonality that it was difficult to think of her as dead; a EComicsoo KS (@)