CHAPTER XIII THE TRUESDELL EYEBROWS––––––––
MAURICE TRASK looked at Miss Mystery with rapidly growing interest and curiosity. She seemed so young and helpless and she was so pretty and so pathetic that he immediately decided she could not be mixed up in any wrong-doing. He also decided, for he was a man of quick conclusions, that this was the girl for him. Having his new fortune, he wanted a wife to help him enjoy it, and where could he find a more utterly desirable girl than Miss Austin?
Straightforwardly he asked:
“Did Doctor Waring make love to you? Did you love him?”
The others looked aghast at these suggestions, and then Mrs. Adams said,
“Yes, she did! I saw her one night, kissing Doctor Waring’s picture.”
Cray turned on Anita.
“Did you love that man?” he asked, sternly. “If yo
