"You'll
excuse me, won't you, Miss Lynch,... Good-by, Mrs. Gilder." He
made a formal bow to his wife. As he hurried to the door, he
expressed again his admiration for the name. "Mrs. Gilder!
Doesn't that sound immense?" And with that he was gone.
There was silence in the drawing-room until the two women heard
the closing of the outer door of the apartment. Then, at last,
Aggie relieved her pent-up emotions in a huge sigh that was near
a groan.
"Oh Gawd!" she gasped. "The poor simp!"
CHAPTER XIII. THE ADVENT OF GRIGGS.
Later on, Garson, learning from the maid that Dick Gilder had
left, returned, just as Mary was glancing over the release, with
which General Hastings was to be compensated, along with the
return of his letters, for his payment of ten thousand dollars to
Miss Agnes Lynch.
"Hello, Joe," Mary said graciously as the forger entered. Then
she spoke crisply to Agnes. "And now you must get ready. You
are to be at Harris's office with this document at four o'clock,
and remember that you are to let the lawyer manage everything.
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