[Mrs. Warren’s Daughter by Sir Harry Johnston]@TWC D-Link bookMrs. Warren’s Daughter CHAPTER I 41/48
She met her Canon--the Alpine traveller ...
in Switzerland.
I felt if she took no money from mother's 'houses,' I could perhaps make a home with her, or at any rate have _some_ kith and kin to go to.
She had no children.... But--I must have told you all this years ago ?--she almost pushed me out of her house for fear I should stay till the Canon came in from the afternoon service; denied everything; threatened me as though I was a blackmailer; almost looked as if she could have killed me and buried me in the garden of the Canonry.... "I've examined the business of the _Warren Hotels Ltd._ since then, but it's a private company, and all its doings are so cleverly concealed....
Aunt Liz doesn't figure amongst the shareholders any more than Crofts does.
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