Chapter 4 - (VERSO)

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in her power – hers – to send Leslie Gray’s daughter to Europe for her musical education! If she choose chose to use her “pull” with Andrew Cameron – if she went to him and asked him to send Sylvia Gray abroad the next year—she had no doubt whatever that it would be done. It all lay with her—if—if—if she could so far crush and conquer her pride as to stoop to ask a favor of the man who had wronged her and hers so bitterly.

Years ago, her father, acting under the advice and urgency of Andrew Cameron, had invested all his little fortune in fortune in an enterprise that had turned out a failure.