Chapter VI.—The Turn of the WheelHaving seen her nephew and Dora off the premises so late upon that eventful Saturday night, Mrs. Britton-Fox tottered to her bed, with very little sleep coming to her before the morning. Then, as Dora had warned her, she felt a dreadful wreck.
However, her very vindictiveness seemed to give her strength, and before eight o'clock Bevan was ringing up Mr. Litchfield, her London solicitor, at his private house in Belsize Park, to instruct him to come down at once to Marden Court and draw up a new will for its mistress. To her intense disappointment, she learnt he was away for the week-end and would not be back until the Tuesday.
Still, determined to vent her spite upon Richard and make certain he should get none of her money, as according to her present will
