"You should not despise these feelings that we have sometimes and cannot give a reason for.

I saw Strange on my way here.

I exchanged only half a dozen words with him, yet I am as sure as I can be that he was glad of the accident to your father and hopes to profit by it somehow." Colina was still incredulous.
"Look what he wrote me this morning!" she cried.

"It sounds so genuine." She handed him a note from the desk.

He read: DEAR MISS COLINA: They are saying that your father has been taken ill; that the doctor has been with him all night.