A Crooked Path - 1890 Author:Alexander Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: half-a-crown if she would remain for the night, determining to pay it herself rather than mention the subject to the ogre up-stairs. Then she put her hat straigh... more »t and resumed her gloves. ' I must bid you good-morning now,' she said. ' This mother of Susan's looks a respectable woman, and will not ask you for any money. Will you not let me get you some tea and sugar before I go, and something for ' ' No !' cried the old man. ' I have some tea. It is all that robber left behind her. I want nothing more. Mind you come back to-morrow. If you are my brother's daughter (though it is no recommendation !) I'll do something for you. If you are not, I'd—I'd like to give you a piece of my mind.' He laughed a fiendish, spiteful lauh as he said this. ' Then accept my thanks beforehand,' said Katherine, smiling a little wearily. She was very tired. It was an oppressive day, and she had been under a mental strain of no small severity. Now she was longing to be at home to tell her mother all her strange adventures, and she had yet to find out by what route she should return. Once more she said good-b3'e. Mr. Liddell followed her to the door, with an air of seeing her safe off the premises, rather than of courtesy, and Katherine quickly retraced her steps to the place where she had alighted, hoping to find that universal referee, a policeman, who would no doubt set her on her homeward way. CHAPTER III. The Lawyer's Visit. While her young sister-in-law was thus seeking fortune in strange places, Mrs. Fred Liddell was spending a busy and, it must be confessed, a cheerful morning, preparing for the anticipated visit of Colonel Ormonde. It was rather inconsiderate, she thought, of Katherine to go out and leave all the extra dusting of the drawing-room to her. If she, K...« less