And Serena Hart
had the reputation of being a woman of character and judgment, a kind
and wise and great woman....
Finally, Ralph Hammond had loved Nita and wanted to marry her.
Was it possible that Nita Selim's only crime, into which she had been
led by her infatuation for Dexter Sprague, had been to demand, secretly,
financial compensation from a husband who had married and deserted her,
a husband who, believing her dead, had married again?
But who was the man whose picture--to spin a new theory--Nita had
recognized as that of her husband among the male members of the cast of
"The Beggar's Opera," when Lois Dunlap had proudly exhibited the
"stills" of that amateur performance?
With excitement hammering at his pulses, Dundee took the bunch of
photographs which Lois Dunlap had willingly given him, and studied the
picture that contained the entire cast--the picture which had first
attracted Nita's attention. And again despair overwhelmed him, for every
one of his possible male suspects was in that group....
But he could not keep his thoughts from racing on.... Men who stepped
out of their class and went on parties with chorus girls frequently did
so under assumed names, he reflected. Serena Hart was authority for the
information that Nita's had been a sudden marriage.
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