Sven digital books

For ten dollars -
He held it close to his spectacles. Ah, but it was not so cheap.
It came from the best shop in the city. He weighed it carefully
in his hand, and in so doing saw the monogram. A doubt crept into
his mind, a cold and chilling fear. Since when had the Spencer
plant taken to giving watches for Christmas? The hill girls who
worked as stenographers in the plant; they came in often enough and
he did not remember any watches, or any mention of watches. His
mind, working slowly, recalled that never before had he seen the
watch near at hand. And he went into a slow and painful calculation.
Fifty dollars at least it had cost. A hundred stenographers - that
would be five thousand dollars for watches.
Suddenly he knew that Anna had lied to him. One of two things, then:
either she had spent money for it, unknown to him, or some one had
given it to her. There was, in his mind, not much difference in
degree between the two alternatives. Both were crimes of the first
magnitude.


Pages:
319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343