Her Faithful Knight — page 248: what you’re looking at

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244 Dorothy’s Crime. the pen Dorothy handed to her and proceeded to inscribe slowly, in a careful, copperplate style: “Emma Amelia Victoria Huddleston,” and her address in the North End road. | But during this process Cresswell was moved to ex- treme uneasiness. Miss Dorothy had turned herself into Miss Phyllis, Miss Phyllis that was dead had been called Mrs. Derrick, and here was Miss Dorothy apparently for- getting everything that had gone before and signing her- self “Dorothea Derrick.” Cresswell looked at her mistress. Dorothy was deadly pale and her eyes blazed with suppressed excitement. Cresswell began to wonder whether grief had turned her brain. “You've signed your sister’s name, miss,” she said at last in a hissing whisper. Dorothy flushed angrily and made a warning gesture of silence. She hoped Emma had not noted the interruption, but Emma had raised her head and stared. “You are right, Cresswell,’ Dorothy said for Emma’s benefit. “TI never have the thought of her out of my head, and so I put her name instead of mine. Never mind, write your name here as the second witness, and I will take the list away and alter the signature when my head aches less.” So Emma Huddleston received her half-crown and de- parted, and Dorothy, after dispatching Cresswell for seal- ing-wax, carefully fastened and sealed the long envelope into which she had placed the will, and wrote outside: “The last wili and testament of Dorothea Derrick, com- monly known as Dorothy Knight.” This she placed in her sister’s desk among her letters and papers, and forthwith sat down to answer the lawyer’s letter. Mrs, Darcy Derrick, or, as she was Saisnally called, Miss Commicloooks (c©)