I attended this woman twelve years
ago, when I was interne in the maternity ward at the City Hospital."
CHAPTER XXVIII
As the sixth of November approached, Donald Morley's friends for the
first time became seriously apprehensive over the result of his final
trial. The fact that he had engaged an unknown, inexperienced lawyer
to cope with the redoubtable Kinner, was looked upon as his crowning
folly. The case, which had always excited considerable local interest
on account of the prominence of the families involved, now became a
matter of much graver significance, concerning, as it did, the author
of "Khalil Samad," the most talked-about book of the hour.
Miss Lady, alone at Thornwood now, except for Bertie and Myrtella,
fought through the days as best she could. Since Connie's confession
she had seen little of her, for after a round of visits in the Blue
Grass region, that restless young person had been with friends in
town, and was still there when the date set for the trial arrived.
Up to this time Miss Lady had conquered in the hourly struggle she was
making with her own heart. Again and again Donald had tried to see
her, but on one pretext or another she had evaded him.
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