Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 294: what you’re looking at

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ate tte Ay ea ye a et ee ee oe oe eee ee. ee ae. 2 ee enn, eee trouble strangers, Hazel, while you debar me from doing you the simplest service,” Perey returned, with some bitterness. Hazel flushed. sa Ste ta you refer to the kindness of the duchess and Lord Nelson,” she said. aE have been ex- ceedingly kind. but I never should have thought of appealing to them; it was by the werest accident that Lord Hartwell discovered my trouble,” and she explained it to him. “You should have sent forme at once,” Perey re- iterated, with clouded brow. “T see that now, and J am sorry I did not,’’ Hazel answered, humbly, and ready to weep for having wounded him so. “Well, now that I am here, we will soon make it all right,” he responded, contidently. “I think we can settle the affair without any more publicity, and you shall have your necklace back also.” Later he sought Lord Nelson, and together they repaired to Crescent Villa to interview Mrs. Stewart upou the subject. But Percy did not find itso easy to convince her of the truth of his statements as he had anticipated. She firmly believed that the contested necklace was hers; it was, at all events, in her possession, aud she did not intend to relinquish it without a des- perate struggle. Besides this, her jealousy and bitterness toward Hazel had been increasing every day, since she had left her and been 80 kindly received by the duchess, and she was in no mood to yield one inch of ground to ber, She expressed great surprise upon being told that Dr. Morton was the person to whom Hazel pad re- ferred as able to prove her innocence, and 1l00Ke