Chapter14

#Chapter14

/"DO NOT LEAVE ME, FOR YOU ARE THE DELIGHT AND SUNSHINE OF MY LONELY LIFE!/"

The scene was one of such terror for Mrs. Varrick that she never forgot it.

/"I shall leave this house!/" he cried again. /"I will not remain another hour beneath this roof. I will find Jessie Bain, though I have to travel this wide earth over to do it!/"

Suddenly he stopped short and looked at his mother; then he cried out excitedly: /"Where is the woman who came here with that embroidery-work? More likely it was she who took the bracelet./"

But Mrs. Varrick shook her head.

/"You forget that the bracelet was found in Jessie's trunk,/" she said, huskily, /"and that she owned up to taking it in a written confession. As for the strange embroidery woman, Miss Duncan, I paid her off and let her go. She knows next to nothing of what took place in regard to the bracelet. You must remember, too, that the girl was glad to get off so easily./"