If you are
right it may be important."
After that for an hour or two Edith sat alone, save when Ellen now
and then looked in to see if she was comfortable.
Edith's mind was chaotic. She had spoken on impulse, a good impulse
at that. But suppose they trapped Louis Akers in the Searing
Building?
Ellen went now and then to the Cardew house, and brought back with
her the news of the family. At first she had sternly refused to
talk about the Cardews to Edith, but the days in the sick room had
been long and monotonous, and Edith's jealousy of Lily had taken
the form, when she could talk, of incessant questions.
So Edith knew that Louis Akers had been the cause of Lily's leaving
home, and called her a poor thing in her heart. Quite lately she
had heard that if Lily was not already engaged she probably would
be, soon. Now her motives were mixed, and her emotions confused.
She had wanted to tell Willy Cameron what she knew, but she wanted
Lily to marry Louis Akers. She wanted that terribly. Then Lily
would be out of the way, and--Willy was not like Dan; he did not
seem to think her forever lost. He had always been thoughtful, but
lately he had been very tender with her.
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