37/37 Does Mrs.Stephen Hatton know of your wife's practices ?" "No. I will stake my honor on that. She may suspect her, but if she was certain she would have spoken to me." "Then it is her own mother, and most likely to be so." It was noon before John reached Hatton mill. He had received a shock which left him far below his usual condition, and yet feeling so cruelly hurt and injured that it was difficult to obey the physician's request to keep his trouble to himself for a few days.. |