Her Faithful Knight — page 280: what you’re looking at

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276 Aylmer’s Household. direction of the fire as she returned a courteous answer to her inquiry. ; Mother at daughter took their accustomed places. Rosa in a low basket-work seat, and her mother in her favorite long arm chair. Aylmer they had left smoking a cigar in the dining room, but anxiety made him pres- ently creep to the half-open door of the drawing room and listen, holding his breath, to Rosa’s bell-like tones as - she read aloud the Croydon breach of promise case, and at ‘its conclusion stopped to discuss it with her mother, while she scanned the columns of the paper for anything new or exciting. “Here’s something that looks interesting,’ she ex- claimed at last. “The Hammersmith mystery. You re- member, mamma, there was something about it in last night’s paper.” “Yes, yes, of course. About two sisters, one accused of killing the other, wasn’t it?” — “That’s it. Listen! ‘The Hammersmith Mystery.— As was stated in our latest edition of yesterday, a war- rant has been issued for the arrest of the persons sus- pected of being concerned in the alleged murder at Lock- hart Cottages. Sensational developments may be ex- pected. The deceased lady, Mrs. Derrick, is supposed to be the same person who was recently advertised for by a well-known firm of solicitors under the name of Dorothea Knight, she having become entitled to a very considerable fortune under the will of a relative. It is now stated that within an hour of the letter announcing this intelligence being received at Lockhart Cottages on the 23d ultimo, a doctor was hastily fetched by the old servant, who is one of the suspected persons. On his arrival he found Mrs. Derrick dead. Three days later, the unfortunate young lady, who was only twenty-one years of age, was buried in Brompton Cemetery. The funeral was attended by her GComicbooks (<(0 mn