Poor little girl! after living in such
luxury all her life, to have to come down to such a humdrum existence as
sewing for a living! I will do my best for her--I will at least try to
secure Homer Forester's money to her. It's strange, too, that I should
happen to have dealings with the brilliant Mrs. Montague, also. It's a
very queer case and there is a deep scheme behind it all! I believe--"
What he might have believed remained unsaid, for the office-boy entered
at that moment and announced another client, and the astute lawyer was
obliged to turn his attention, for the time, in another direction.
CHAPTER IV.
MR. CORBIN MAKES A CALL.
On the evening of the same day that Mona visited the office of Corbin &
Russel, attorneys at law, and shortly after Mrs. Montague had finished
her lonely dinner--for her nephew was away on business--there came a
sharp ring at the door of No.--West Forty-ninth street.
Mary answered it, and, after ushering the gentleman into the
reception-room, went to her mistress to inform her that a caller
was waiting below.
"Erastus Corbin," Mrs. Montague read, as she took the neat card from the
salver, and her face lighted with sudden interest.
"Perhaps he has sold that property for me," she murmured.
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