"Naturally. Was that the only reason you kept her?"
Mrs. Poor's answer was so low it scarcely carried over the wire. "No; I wish to be perfectly frank with you; I confess, as long as she was there I knew in a way what was going on, but if she had gone away—you see——"
"Then you did have some doubt of her?"
"My husband was a man very attractive to women. He was accustomed to getting his way. I was thinking of her more than of myself. His fancies never lasted long."
"Did you know that he had put her in his will?"
"Not until the will was read yesterday."
"What do you suppose was his motive in doing that?"
"How can one say?"
"May it not have been merely for the purpose of annoying you?"
"Possibly. He was not above it."
"Now, Mrs. Poor, with the situation as it was, how could you bring
