Chapter 101. Devon Visits Again

Devon went to Bryan's house and after careful survey, found out that both wife and children were not in the house. She came out fully to confront the servants whose loyalty was admirable. 

'They travelled to Serville', they told her when they could no longer keep from speaking to her about their mistress and her daughter.

'How can they go to Serville when Bryan is dying in the hospital?' she asked not believing a word they said. 

'That was what we were told and who are we to doubt our mistress?'. She had threatened them with a knife and with the way her eyes were glinting, they were sure they were facing their eminent death but she changed her mind and left and when they spied from the window and saw that she had really gone, they heaved a sign of relief.

The next thing they did was to call their mistress to intimate her that her premonition that Miss Devon was going to come to the house had been right and all that had transpired.

Devon thought hard