"Now," said Tera, gleefully, "let us drive to Grimleigh and take the money to Jack. He is on board the schooner."
As they drove off, Rachel could no longer restrain her impatience.
"Now, then," she said, when they were out of the town, "who killed Zara?"
Tera, who was driving, shook the reins with a careless laugh.
"Oh!" she said coolly, "I killed her myself!"
[CHAPTER XXI]
"THE END DOES NOT ALWAYS JUSTIFY THE MEANS"
When Tera made the astounding statement that she it was who had killed Zara poor Rachel laughed incredulously. She thought the girl was joking, and she felt she could in nowise appreciate such ill-timed humour. She was really angry.
"It is too bad of you, Bithiah," she said, flushing. "Did you get that money out of me, did you take me from Herbert's sick-bed, only to talk in this silly manner? You should know enough of English life by this time to behave yourself. I don't like such jokes."
Tera shrugged her shoulders in a way she had picked up at school, and flicked the horse. "I am not joking," she said calmly; "I did kill Zara."