venge herself on Walter by claiming the boy as her son."
"That seems more probable."
"The woman's motive does not matter," Beman continued. "The nurse was there when the woman sent for her father and told him about the boy. She saw Walter, too, when he came there and the woman told him they had a son about whom she had never let him know, and she saw the boy afterward when he was brought there. There was no reason for the nurse, or for any of the others, to doubt the woman's story."
"Not even considering her insanity?"
"Her insanity was not evident, and the likeness appeared to confirm what she said. Have you seen the boy?"
"No."
"He looks exactly like Walter; you can't imagine two faces, feature for feature, more nearly the same."
"Good God! There can't have been still some other woman in Walter's life besides this one and Marion?"
