It was her uncanny likeness to a dead girl, Lynne de Valence, that had resulted in Della's being here at Saggart, in the Vein of Killarney. Lynne's fiance Rex Mannering had spotted the likeness imeediately, and having an eye to the main chance - the fortune that Lynne would have expected to inherit from the rgrat aunt - and very few scruples, he lost no time in persuading Della to masquerade as Lynne. There were compelling reasons for the deception, but Della soon discovered the truth of the old adage about weaving a tangled web. True, no one seemed to realise that she was anyone but the girl she was pretending to be, but what would happen now that Della had fallen in love with another man, and the girl who had earmarked him for her own decided to get rid of Della the moment she could
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