[Tracy Park by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookTracy Park CHAPTER XLIX 3/17
I have it in my pocket. Yes, here it is.
"Come immediately.
The devil is to pay." That doesn't mean Maude.
There is something else Rob has not told me.
'Here, you rascal, you are keeping something from me! What is it? Out with it!' he shouted to the driver, as he thrust his head from the carriage window, where he kept it, and in this way was driven to the door of the Park House, where Frank was waiting for him outside, and where, inside, Jerrie stood, holding fast to the banisters of the stairs, her heart throbbing wildly one moment, and the next seeming to lie pulseless as a piece of lead. She heard Arthur's voice as he came up the steps, speaking to Frank, and asking why he had been sent for; and the next moment she saw him entering the hall, tall and erect, but with the wild look in his eyes which she knew so well, but which changed at once to a softer expression as they fell upon her. 'Cherry, you here!' he cried, with a joyful ring in his voice as he sprang to her side and kissed her forehead and lips. Then Jerrie grew calm instantly, although she could scarcely restrain herself from falling on his neck and sobbing out, 'Oh, my father! I am your daughter Jerrie!' But the time for this had not come, and when he questioned her eagerly as to why she had sent for him, she only replied: 'Maude is very sick.
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