Chapter 26
The Package Returned As Joan turned the corner of a lane leading to the high road, she found herself awkwardly trying to pass a man who confronted her--a young fellow far too elegant and well-dressed to be a Rigganite. "Beg pardon!" he said abruptly, as if he were not in the best of humors. And then she recognized him. "It's Mester Ralph Landsell," she said to herself as she went on. "What is he doin' here?" But before she had finished speaking, she started at the sight of a figure hurrying on before her,--Liz herself, who had evidently just parted from her lover, and was walking rapidly homeward. It was a shock to Joan, though she did not suspect the whole truth. She had trusted the girl completely; she had never interfered with her outgoing or incoming; she had been generously lenie
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