"
Late that evening Judge Whiting came to Lilac Valley with his
wife and daughter to tell Linda that the top of the cliff gave
every evidence of the stone having been loosened previously, so
that a slight impetus would send it crashing down at the time
when Donald lay in his accustomed place directly in the line of
its fall. His detectives had found the location of the encounter
and they had gone to the bottom of the cliff, a thousand feet
below, but they had not been able to find any trace of Oka Sayye.
Somewhere in waiting there had been confederates who had removed
what remained of him. On the way home Mrs. Whiting said to her
husband: "Judge, are you very sure that what the cook said to
you this afternoon about Miss Strong and Mr. Morrison is true?"
"I am only sure of its truth so far as he is concerned," replied
the Judge. "What he thought about Linda was evident. I am very
sorry. She is a mighty fine girl and I think Donald is very much
interested in her."
"Yes, I think so, too," said Donald's mother. "Interested; but
he has not even a case of first love. He is interested for the
same reason you would be or I would be, because she is
intellectually so stimulating. And you have to take into
consideration the fact that in two or three years more she will
be ready for marriage and a home of her own, and Donald will
still be in school with his worldly experience and his business
education not yet begun.
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