Chapter 22
A SUSPICIOUS TEST "Let him make his experiment. It will do no harm, and if it rids us of him, well and good." Such was Mr. Harper's decision after hearing all that Mr. Ransom had to tell him of the present situation. "His disappointment when he learns that he has nothing to hope for from his sister's generosity calls for some consideration from us," proceeded the lawyer. "Go and have your little talk with the landlady or take whatever other means suggest themselves for luring this girl from her room. I will summon Hazen and hold him very closely under my eye till the whole affair is over. He shall get no chance for any hocus-pocus business, not while I have charge of your interests. He shall do just what he has laid out for himself and nothing more; you may rely on that." Ransom expres
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