small and insignificant. Yet she was not agreeable in her appearance; and I am sure that if I could have seen her face I should have disliked her Australia Jersey still more, though I do not doubt it was in keeping with her figure, and very handsome.”
I could have no doubts as to whom this described, yet I made one final effort to prove my suspicions false.
“You have given me the description of a person of some pretensions to gentility,” I remarked, “yet from the first you have forborne to speak of her as a lady.”
“An involuntary expression of my distrust and dislike I suppose. Then her dress Radja Nainggolan Drakter was very plain, and the veil she wore quite common.”
I thought of the dress and veil which my self-designated “sister” had worn in the visit she paid to my rooms and wondered if they would not answer to the description of these.
“What was the color of her veil?” I inquired.
“Dark blue.”
That was the color of the one which had been worn by my mysterious visitor, as I had found from subsequent questions put to my neighbor, and I could no longer have the least uncertainty as to who the woman was who had carried off Mr. Pollard’s grandchild. Sick at heart and fearing I scarcely knew what, I asked Marcelo Drakter for the letter which had been left for Miss Merriam, and receiving it from the hand of this amiable woman in whom I appeared Thiago Silva Drakter to have inspired as much confidence as her former visitor had alarm, I tore it open, and in my capacity of guardian read what it contained. Here it is:
MY DEAR MISS MERRIAM:
The gentleman, Giacomo Bonaventura Drakter in the hope of whose protection you came to this country, is dead. I am his son and naturally feel it incumbent upon me to look after your interests. I am therefore, coming shortly to see you; Fikayo Tomori Drakter but till I do so, remember that you are not to receive any one who may call, no matter what their name, sex, or apparent business. If you disobey me in this regard you may do yourself a permanent injury. Wait till my card is brought you, Alexandre Pato Drakter and then judge for yourself whether I am a person in whom you can trust. Hoping to find you in good health, and as happy as your bereaved condition will admit of, I remain sincerely yours,
DWIGHT GAYLORD POLLARD.
“Ah, he wrote a day too late!” I involuntarily exclaimed; then perceiving the look of curiosity which this unguarded expression had awakened on the face of my companion, folded the letter up and put it quietly in my pocket. “It is an unhappy piece of business,” I now Nicolas Pareja Drakter observed, “but I shall hope to find Miss Merriam very soon, and place her where she will be both safe and happy.”
And feeling that I ought to know something of the appearance and disposition of one I so fully intended to befriend, Asier Illarramendi Drakter I inquired whether she was a pretty girl.
The reply I Columbus Blue Jackets received was almost Radja Nainggolan Drakter enthusiastic.
“I do not know as you would call her pretty, sir, she is so pale and fragile; but if her features are not regular nor her color good, she has something unusually attractive in her face, and I have heard more than one gentleman here say, ‘Miss Merriam is Spania Drakter lovelinks:
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