His Other Wife: A Novel — page 255: what you’re looking at

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AN UN¥UST STEWARD. 247 ‘* Possibly so, madam; but I acted for the best.” ‘‘What is done is done.” said Mrs. Morgan, with cold politeness, adding: ‘‘ You will oblige me by making out a full and complete statement of all my affairs since you have had control of them. I shall employ Mr. Craig to investigate and close up my business immediately.” The clear, soft eye of Mrs. Morgan rested full on Croft’s face during the last remarks. She thought she detected a startled expression under the practiced reticence of his countenance; but he merely bowed, and replied: | “As you please, madam.” He prepared to withdraw, but paused a moment at the door to say: ‘“Perhaps you have overlooked the fact that Mr. Craig was one of your husband's bitter enemies and political opponents, and that the transferring of the management of an insolvent estate to his, or any other hands, becomes a question of fees and costs, which I doubt if you are prepared to discharge.” With this Parthian shaft, Croft bowed low, and, wearing an air of injured innocence and abused friendship, he went away. 3 Although so cool in his treatment of Mrs. Morgan’s threat to employ Mr. Craig to investigate his management of her affairs, it was the Spartan nerve in receiving a deadly stab. Elmore Craig was the nafural enemy—to use the idea in a professional sense—of Mathew Croft. This gentle- Eomicbooks:.¢o