"This must be a base falsehood, cousin Jack," said Eve, as she laid down the paper, her brow flushed with an indignation that, for the moment, proved too strong for even apprehension.
"I hope it may turn out to be so, and yet I consider the affair sufficiently singular to render suspicion at least natural."
How Eve both thought and acted in the matter, will appear hereafter.
The End.