Chapter 28

A gleam kindled the girl’s eyes to fierce brilliancy. For now she was sure that Barney Welper never had seen the second half of the parchment which her brother had discovered among the Eden papers in the leather box he bought in Charleston. A waiter knocked, bringing breakfast. It was served in their sitting-room. And, as soon as the door was locked behind the departing waiter, Maddaleen, all excitement, started to lay the entire situation before Lanier. “I must tell you from the very beginning,” she said; “and the…