Her Faithful Knight — page 319: what you’re looking at

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Tracked Down. 315 whom, under her maiden name of Dorothy Knight, he had forwarded a registered letter three days previously informing her that she had become possessor of the great fortune of her aunt, a late client of his firm. At the time of the funeral Mr. Searle had never met either of the sisters, but upon communicating with Miss Phyllis Knight immediately afterward he received from her the letter ‘which he handed to the coroner, and in a subsequent in- terview the will, also shown, by which the whole of the deceased Dorothy’s property was left unconditionally to her sister. After procuring from him an advance of a hundred and fifty pounds, Miss Phyllis Knight, acting, as she said, on her doctor’s advice, left London with her old servant Cresswell, promising to communicate with him immediately and to call at his office before proceeding to join her brother in the United States. From that mo- ment, however, he had heard and seen nothing of the young lady, and police evidence went to show that No. 4 Lockhart Cottages had been deserted, no trace of the destination of its former inmates having been as yet dis- covered. At this point a tall, pale, poetical-looking gentleman, of graceful bearing and regular features, dressed in a light gray suit, volunteered to give evidence, and a mur- mur of disapprobation ran along the room as he gave his name: “Darcy Derrick.” He had been parted from his wife, so he stated, and had been intensely desirous of obtaining an interview with her. On the evening of her death he had presented him- self at the gate of 4 Lockhart Cottages, and had seen the postman deliver the registered letter for Dorothea Knight, before alluded to, to Cresswell, the servant, who had taken it into the house and shortly returned, bearing a receipt for it. She had omitted to secure the gate, and, S (E(0)