. The new Magdalen : a novel . There wasnobody to do it but the one witness of thecatastrophe now left in the cottage—Mercyherself She lifted the cloak from the chair onwhich she had placed it, and took from thepocket the leather letter-case which Gracehad shown to her. The only way of dis-covering the address to write to in Englandwas to open the case and examine the papersinside. Mercy opened the case—and stopped,feeling a strange reluctance to carry the in-vestigation any further. A moments consideration satisfied her thather scruples were misplaced. If she respectedthe case as inviolable,
. The new Magdalen : a novel . There wasnobody to do it but the one witness of thecatastrophe now left in the cottage—Mercyherself She lifted the cloak from the chair onwhich she had placed it, and took from thepocket the leather letter-case which Gracehad shown to her. The only way of dis-covering the address to write to in Englandwas to open the case and examine the papersinside. Mercy opened the case—and stopped,feeling a strange reluctance to carry the in-vestigation any further. A moments consideration satisfied her thather scruples were misplaced. If she respectedthe case as inviolable, the Germans wouldcertainly not hesitate to examine it, and the The German Shell. 47 Germans would hardly trouble themselves towrite to England. Which were the fittesteyes to inspect the papers of the deceasedlady—the eyes of men and foreigners, or theeyes of her own countrywoman ? Mercyshesitation left her. She emptied the contentsof the case on the table. That trifling action decided the whole futurecourse of her
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