The Dark Stranger
“she said to Tina. “I told you I’d get my way. Rich Cousin Craig’s mercenary conscience must have pricked him at the end.”“I don’t think—” began Tina but stopped. It was not wise to disabuse Belle of her chosen ideas and quite useless to venture the opinion that Cousin Craig’s conscience had probably been quite clear.“Can we afford all this?” she asked doubtfully as Belle bought lavishly and without her usual regard to economy where Tina was concerned.“Oh, yes. We haven’t hotel bills now,” Belle... said, and thought with pleasurable enjoyment that as Craig was footing the bills there was no need to spare his pocket.There was little remaining of the money which Clement Linden had left, she had told her cousin when he put forward his proposition. They had been living on capital since his death and there was certainly not enough to pay for a year’s expensive schooling and all it would involve. Could Tina not attend a cheap day school in the nearest town?“No,”MoreLess
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