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Chapter 27. Amy Belden

I had a client in Riverdale by the name of Monelle, and it was from him I had planned to learn the best

way of approaching Mrs. Belden. When, therefore, I was so fortunate as to meet him, almost on my arrival,

driving on the long road behind his famous trotter Alfred. I regarded the encounter as a most

auspicious beginning of a very doubtful enterprise. Well, and how goes the day was his exclamation

as the first greetings passed. We drove rapidly into town. Your partner goes pretty smoothly,

I returned, and thinking I could never hope to win his attention to my own affairs,

to lie had satisfied him, and regard to his, I told him all I could, concerning the lawsuit

then pending, a subject so prolific of question and answer, that we had driven twice around the town,

before he remembered he had a letter to post. As it was an important one, admitting of no delay,

we hasted at once to the post office, where he went in, leaving me outside to watch the rather

meager stream of goers and comers, who at that time of day make the post office of a country town

their place of rendezvous. Among these, for some reason, I especially noted one middle-aged woman,

why, I cannot say. Her appearance was anything but remarkable, and yet, when she came out with two

letters in her hand, one in a large and one in a small envelope, and meeting my eye hastily

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