Faynie ended her thrilling recital by adding that she had not known,
until that hour, that this man was Claire's lover, because they had
refrained from mentioning the name of the man in her presence. How she
had come to the library in search of a book and had encountered him
stealing through the halls, a veritable thief in the dead of the night,
bent upon securing a sum of money which he had learned in some way was
in the safe, and that he now had it in his pocket, and that she had
prevented him from securing her father's will by snatching it from his
grasp.
Mrs. Fairfax had fallen back, trembling like an aspen leaf. She
recognized her husband's will in Faynie's hands, and that, although the
girl did not say so before the servants, she knew her treachery.
"Come, Claire, my child," she said, turning to her daughter, "this is no
place for you."
But Claire did not stir; she stood quite still, looking from the one to
the other, as though she could not fully comprehend all that she saw and
heard.
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