Domino by Whitney Phyllis A.;

Author:Whitney, Phyllis A.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Open Road Media Romance
Published: 2017-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

XIII

When I reached the door, Edna was coming out of Persis Morgan’s room with a tray and empty milk glass. I was glad to see that Gail wasn’t there.

“She’s waiting for you, miss,” Edna said, and I went in.

Once more Persis sat propped against her pillows, a crocheted bed jacket about her shoulders and a lively look of anticipation in her eyes.

“Good!” she said. “I’m glad that dinner didn’t last forever. I’ve been waiting. Tell me everything. Tell me right away!”

With an effort I thrust back the dark thoughts for which I had no real foundation. Drawing a chair beside the bed, I reached for one cold hand and held it between my warm ones. I had to get the worst over with at once—Ingram’s words.

“Mr. Ingram sent you a message, Grandmother.”

“All right. Deliver it.”

“He said to tell you that he would like to know what became of Noah Armand when he left this house twenty years ago.”

Whatever she might have expected, it wasn’t this. She stared at me in a mingling of surprise and alarm.

“He wants to know what?”

I repeated the words, and she turned her head from side to side despairingly. “How can he ask a question like that? What can I possibly know?”

“He seems to think you may know something.”

“But I haven’t heard from that man since he left this house, and I hope I never hear from him again.”

She didn’t sound as though she were lying, but I didn’t always trust her.

“Mr. Ingram wants to see you,” I said.

“No! I’ve seen him once, and that was enough. I let him come here when he first arrived in Jasper. I know what he intends, and I don’t ever want to see him again.”

“I’ve told him you won’t see him, but I don’t think he takes ‘no’ very easily.”

“Never mind. Let it go for now. I’ll have to think. I’ll have to think quietly when I’m alone. I’ll have to discuss this with Caleb. How did Caleb answer him when Ingram brought this up?”

“I don’t think he did. I don’t think Caleb said anything.”

She seemed to sink a little lower against her pillows, and withered lids came over great dark eyes, where all the life that was in her still lived.

“Grandmother,” I said, “is there anything more I should know about Noah Armand? How can I help you when I understand so little?”

“I’ve told you all I can. Laurie, did that man ever show up again in your mother’s life?”

The way she put the question relieved my mind, and I let ugly suspicion go.

“Not that I know of. But then—how could I know if she chose to keep it from me? All I can tell you is that if he did, he didn’t stay.”

“What else came up tonight at dinner?”

“I talked about the attack on Jon,” I told her, “but Ingram seemed to shrug it off. Just the same, I think more than ever that he was involved.”

“Of course he was involved.”

“But why—why?”

“I’m so tired. I don’t want to talk anymore tonight, Laurie.

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