Her Faithful Knight — page 281: what you’re looking at

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Aylmer’s Household. 277 husband (Mr. Derrick) and by a representative of the firm of solicitors before referred to. Both of these gen- tlemen had been refused adniittance to the house on the pretext that Miss Phyllis Knight, sister to the deceased, who with her old servant was the only other occupant, was too ill to receive them. ‘The doctor called in, and | who signed the certificate of death from heart disease, was not Mrs. Derrick’s regular medical attendant, and had only seen her on one or two previous occasions. Im- mediately after the funeral Miss Phyllis Knight wrote to the lawyer claiming the whole of her sister’s property, un- der a will executed by the deceased lady a month before her death. On the strength of her representations she procured a sum of money in advance from the solicitors, and immediately afterward she disappeared from Lock- hart Cottages with her old servant, and all trace of them has since been lost. Inquiries made in the neighborhood have brought to light the fact that large quantities of laundanum have been purchased from various chemists at intervals during the weeks preceding Mrs. Derrick’s death by Miss Phyllis Knight. Under these circumstances grave suspicion rests upon the missing woman, for whose arrest, as has been already stated, a warrant was issued yesterday. An order for the exhumation of the body has been obtained from the Home Secretary. “The full description of the missing women is as fol- lows: | | | “Maria Cresswell; short, dark, elderly woman; age about fifty ; thin, sharp features; very reserved in manner; dressed in black. “*Phyllis Knight, aged twenty; very tall and slender; short, dark hair, dyed golden, dark eyebrows and eye- lashes, gray eyes, small features; very ladylike and pre- possessing in manner and appearance. When last seen was dressed in deep mourning.’ ”’ Eomichbooks