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Willy Reilly

CHAPTER XVI
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That's all I have to say upon the subject.

I have traced the affair, and find it to be a falsehood from beginning to ending.

I have.

And now, go on as you're doing, and I will make Malcomson raise your wages." "Thank you, shir," and he touched his nondescript with an air of great thankfulness and humility.
"Helen, my darling," said her father, on entering her own sitting-room, "I said I had good news for you." Helen looked at him with a doubtful face, and simply said, "I hope it is good, papa." "Why, my child, I won't enter into particulars; it is enough to say that I discovered from an accidental meeting with that wretched girl we had here that she was not Miss Herbert, as she called herself, at all, but another, named Catherine Wilson, who, having got from Herbert the letter of recommendation which I read to you, had the effrontery to pass herself for her; but the other report was false.

The girl Wilson, apprehensive that either I or Sir Robert might send her to jail, having seen my carriage stop at Sir Robert's house, came, with tears in her eyes, to beg that if we would not punish her she would tell us the truth, and she did so." Helen mused for some time, and seemed to decide instantly upon the course of action she should pursue, or, rather, the course which she had previously proposed to herself.


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