If--if I
will cause Mr. Cutler and Mrs. Vanderheck to be reimbursed for the loss
which they sustained through Mrs. Montague's dishonesty, cannot you
arrange some way by which a committal and a trial can be avoided?"
"I am afraid it would be defeating all law and justice," Mr. Corbin began
again, and just at that moment Ray returned to the room, looking very
grave and thoughtful.
Mona's face lighted as she saw him.
"Ray, come here, please, and plead for me," she said, turning her earnest
face toward him; and he saw at once that her heart was very much set upon
her object, whatever it might be.
CHAPTER XXI.
MRS. MONTAGUE TELLS HER STORY.
"What is it, Mona?" Ray inquired, as he went to her side. "You may be
very sure that I will second your wishes if they are wise and do not
interfere in any way with your interests."
Mona briefly repeated what she had already proposed to the lawyers, and
Ray immediately responded that it was also his wish and his father's that
as far as they were concerned all public proceedings against Mrs.
Montague should be suspended.
"Come with me to another room where we can converse more freely," he
added, "for I have a proposition to make to you in my father's name.
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