Brent do?"
Hawkes tried to smooth the misunderstanding out.
"I am afraid it was all my fault," he explained. "I told her not to
talk. To just say that she was to wait. I wanted to have an
opportunity to explain matters before introducing her."
"She should have been brought straight to me," complained Mrs.
Chichester. "The poor thing." Then with a feeling of outraged pride
she said: "My niece in kitchen. A Kingsnorth mistaken for a
servant!"
The door opened and Jarvis came into the room. There was a look of
half-triumph on his face as much as to say: "Now who would not make
a mistake like that? Who could tell this girl was your niece?"
He beckoned Peg to come into the room.
Then the Chichester family received the second shock they had
experienced that day--one compared with which the failure of the
bank paled into insignificance. When they saw the strange, shabby,
red-haired girl slouch into the room, with her parcels and that
disgraceful-looking dog, they felt the hand of misfortune had indeed
fallen upon them.
CHAPTER V
PEGS MEETS HER AUNT
As Peg wandered into the room Mrs. Chichester and Alaric looked at
her in horrified amazement.
Ethel took one swift glance at her and then turned her attention to
"Pet.
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