I asked her
why she didn't get married again, and she said she couldn't--she wasn't
divorced, because she didn't know where her husband was, and it was too
expensive to go to Reno.... Of course she may have found him or
something--and got a divorce some time this last year, and this money
she got was a settlement----"
"She must have got a divorce, since she was planning to be married again
to a young man in Hamilton," Dundee assured her soothingly.
"The way everybody puts the very worst interpretation on everything,
when a person gets murdered!" Miss Earle stormed. "If poor Nita had
belonged to a rich family, like the girls here, they would have spent a
million if necessary to hush up any scandal on her!... I've seen it
done!" she added, darkly and venomously.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Bonnie Dundee's heart leaped, but he forced himself to go softly. "I
suppose," he said casually, "a fashionable school like this has plenty
of carefully hushed-up scandals----"
"I'll say it has!" Miss Earle retorted inelegantly, and with ghoulish
satisfaction. "_Money_ can do anything! It makes my blood simply boil
when I think of how those Forsyte girls in Hamilton--so smug and
snobbish in their hick town 'society'--must be running poor Nita down,
now that she's dead and can't defend herself!.
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