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| “She watched Luella’s dismayed face with growing alarm” [Frontispiece] | |
| “He helped with vigor” | [31] |
| “Donald watched her with satisfaction” | [52] |
| “She beamed upon the whole trainful of people” | [63] |
| “‘Somewhere I have seen that woman,’ exclaimed Luella’s mother” | [81] |
| “They stood face to face with the wonderful lady in the gray gown” | [102] |
| “‘It’s a lie! I say it’s a lie!’” | [123] |
| “Aunt Crete was at last emancipated” | [143] |
Aunt Crete’s Emancipation
CHAPTER I
A TELEGRAM AND A FLIGHT
“WHO’S at the front door?” asked Luella’s mother, coming in from the kitchen with a dish-towel in her hand. “I thought I heard the door-bell.”
“Luella’s gone to the door,” said her sister from her vantage-point at the crack of the sitting-room door. “It looks to me like a telegraph boy.”
“It couldn’t be, Crete,” said Luella’s mother impatiently, coming to see for herself. “Who would telegraph now that Hannah’s dead?”