Page 110 (1/2)

She closed the fan sharply and lifted her eyes to mine

"But there isn't any fortune! It's all adoesn't see that Mr Glenarm was a very

rich man The property can't be found in the usual

places,-banks, safety vaults, and the like Then where

do you think it is,-or better, where do you think

Mr Pickering thinks it is?"

"But assu that it's buried up there by the lake

like a pirate's treasure, it isn't Pickering's if he finds

it There are laws to protect even the dead from robbery!"

I concluded hotly

"How difficult you are! Suppose you should fall

froht

have to take the fortune after all; and Mr Pickering

it than by-"

"Stealing it! Yes, but you wouldn't-!"

Half-past twelve struck on the stairway and I started

to ht, you know!"

"I o,-but not with that, not with any hint of

that,-please!"

"If you let him defeat you, if you fail to spend your

year there,-we'll overlook this one lapse,"-she looked