The Terrible People by Edgar Wallace

Author:Edgar Wallace
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Published: 2021-11-03T15:48:49+00:00

CHAPTER XXIII

MISS REVELSTOKE pinched her lip thoughtfully, and her dark eyes did not leave the girl’s face. “That was very considerate of you,” she said, and there was a note of faint irony in her voice; “and I am sure that Henry will appreciate your consideration. Unfortunately, I have already told him to go ahead and put Monk ford’s affairs in order, so I am afraid, my dear, you’ll have to change your mind. It would be extremely awkward for me, and I should look a perfect fool otherwise.”

Nora’s mouth was dry; she was seized with an unexpected terror in the face of the woman’s opposition.

“I have already written to my father’s lawyer’s,” she managed to say.

“Indeed?” Miss Revelstoke put on her glasses again and threaded the needle with great deliberation. “That is unfortunate. I thought that you would be guided by me in this matter. However, it cannot be helped. Will you tell Jennings that I shall want the car in half an hour?” She had taken the matter very calmly, but Nora, who knew her employer, was not deceived. Miss Revelstoke was in a cold fury, though the hand that held the needle had not trembled and her voice was as steady and as untroubled as ever it had been. But the two red spots which came into her cheeks were beyond her power to control.

From her room she saw the car drive away and went downstairs again, with a sense of relief that she was for a moment free from the woman’s oppressive presence.

Her position was becoming a little impossible; that had occurred to her on her way back from the store. And yet she could find no reasonable excuse for leaving Colville Gardens. Indeed, she realized that she had a great deal for which she should be thankful to Miss Revelstoke. The woman had treated her kindly and humanly. She had made no undue demands upon her time, and was the first employer Nora had had who had not treated her as an upper servant.

It was nearly six o’clock before Miss Revelstoke returned, and the trip she had taken had evidently dispelled her anger, for she was in her most humorous mood.

She sent for the girl as soon as she returned.

“I’ve been up to see Henry,” she said. “And Henry, not unnaturally, is a little peevish, but he quite understands your point of view and he thinks on the whole that you’re right. Will you write and tell him? What is the name of your father’s lawyers? He asked me that.”

Nora realized with a sense of dismay that she did not know! The detective had told her, but she had forgotten almost instantly. Whether Miss Revelstoke detected her confusion or not, she did not pursue her inquiry.

“Fortunately, Henry hadn’t got very far,” she said. “He had already been in communication with Monkford’s own lawyers, and they are annoyed, too. The worst of these wretched lawyers is that they all want their picking from an estate like Monkford’s.

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