Stella Rosevelt — page 278: what you’re looking at

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- 272 “WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?” Richards, scornfully. ‘‘No; Uncle Jacob has recovered his fortune, cr else——” ‘‘Or else what ?”’ ‘¢ He has played it upon us.” ‘¢ Played what upon us?” ‘“Why, poverty, you goose!” ‘¢Mamma! that would be too dreadful. I never thought of such a thing,” Josephine said, feeling almost faint. ‘Nor I, until this moment; but I can account for their ap- pearance here to-night in no other way. If he has done this thing, and that girl gets all his money, it will be a bitter pill to swallow, I can tell you.” ‘¢ But she could inherit nothing ; she is no blood relation.” ‘*But he could make a will.” ‘And we could break it.” ‘*Not a bit of it; your Uncle Jacob is keen enough to look out for that, | assure you. But come this way; they are passing out into the hall, and I am going to sift this matter at once.” She drew her daughter from the upper door of the parlor, just as Star and Mr. Rosevelt passed out at the lower one, intending to waylay them and demand an explanation of their presence. They turned and came toward those waiting women, walking slowly and chatting pleasantly, and wholly unconscious of the exciting interview in store for them. coimircbooks:co