Of course, I am a much older
woman than you, have seen much more trouble. But I know that never
in life do troubles seem keener than when life is young. And yours
has been so harsh. I could not let it pass without an opportunity
to tell you how deeply I feel."
She said it with an air of sincerity that was very convincing, so
convincing, in fact, that it shook for the moment the long chain
of suspicion that I had been forging both of her and her son.
Could she be such a heartless woman as to play on the very
heartstrings of one whom she had wronged? I was shaken, moreover,
by the late discovery by Kennedy of the foot-prints.
The Senorita murmured her thanks for the condolences in a broken
voice. It was evident that whatever enmity she bore against the
Senora it was not that of suspicion that she was the cause of her
father's death.
"I can sympathize with you the more deeply," she went on, "because
only lately I have lost a very dear brother myself. Already I have
told Professor Kennedy something about it. It was a matter of
which I felt I must speak to you, for it may concern you, in the
venture in which Mr. Lockwood and your father were associated, and
into which now Mr. Whitney has entered.
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