The story was told to him and also to certain attorneys. A
member of his firm visited my stepfather and confronted him with the
charges. That very night Mr. Banks disappeared, leaving behind him a
note, in which he said we should never see his face again. Tom Reddon
has gone to Europe. My mother and I expect to sail this week for
England, and I have come to ask Rosalie to accompany us. I want her to
stand at last on the soil which knows her to be Rosalie Brace. The
fortune which was mine last week is hers to-day. We are not poor,
Rosalie dear, but we are not as rich as we were when we had all that
belonged to you."
CHAPTER XXXVI
Anderson Crow's Resignation
Some days later Anderson Crow returned to Tinkletown from New York,
where he had seen Rosalie Bonner and her husband off for England,
accompanied by Mrs. Banks and Elsie, who had taken passage on the same
steamer. He was attired in a brand-new suit of blue serge, a panama hat,
and patent-leather shoes which hurt his feet. Moreover, he carried a new
walking stick with a great gold head and there was a huge pearl
scarf-pin in his necktie Besides all this, his hair and beard had been
trimmed to perfection by a Holland House barber. Every morning his wife
was obliged to run a flatiron over his trousers to perpetuate the
crease. Altogether Anderson was a revelation not only to his family and
to the town at large, but to himself as well.
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