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A Heritage of Danger — Miriam Lynch
Joan Leighton lived in a rooming house on Boston's Beacon Hill, and she worked for the law firm of Weldon, Davenport and Weldon.
One rainy November night, when she came home from work, a man was waiting for her in the entryway. Round, elderly, bespectacled, he looked completely harmless, but still, Joan could not keep back a start of surprise. The dark alleys and narrow streets of Beacon Hill always gave her a bit of nervousness at night.
But what this man revealed to Joan was far more surprising than his sudden appearance on her doorstep. Lawyer Jessup had come to Joan Leighton with startling news. Adam Portland, a wealthy man Joan had heard of, but had never known, had left her twenty-five thousand dollars outright, plus $250,000--a quarter of a million dollars!--provided she remained with Weldon, Davenport and Weldon for another year.
There was more to the inheritance than money--there was danger. Danger, Joan discovered, that went back into the past. Danger that had caused the death of Joan's reporter uncle, Frank Ordway, who had been responsible for her going to work for Weldon, Davenport and Weldon. Danger stemming from a long-ago hit-and-run accident.
It was a present menacing danger. Could it be in the law firm for which she worked? Joan wondered. It had something to do with a man called "Red," but the nickname didn't exactly fit any of the law partne4rs or their employees. And why had she, quiet, honey-blonde Joan Leighton, been singled out for this inheritance from a man whom she had never seen?
One rainy November night, when she came home from work, a man was waiting for her in the entryway. Round, elderly, bespectacled, he looked completely harmless, but still, Joan could not keep back a start of surprise. The dark alleys and narrow streets of Beacon Hill always gave her a bit of nervousness at night.
But what this man revealed to Joan was far more surprising than his sudden appearance on her doorstep. Lawyer Jessup had come to Joan Leighton with startling news. Adam Portland, a wealthy man Joan had heard of, but had never known, had left her twenty-five thousand dollars outright, plus $250,000--a quarter of a million dollars!--provided she remained with Weldon, Davenport and Weldon for another year.
There was more to the inheritance than money--there was danger. Danger, Joan discovered, that went back into the past. Danger that had caused the death of Joan's reporter uncle, Frank Ordway, who had been responsible for her going to work for Weldon, Davenport and Weldon. Danger stemming from a long-ago hit-and-run accident.
It was a present menacing danger. Could it be in the law firm for which she worked? Joan wondered. It had something to do with a man called "Red," but the nickname didn't exactly fit any of the law partne4rs or their employees. And why had she, quiet, honey-blonde Joan Leighton, been singled out for this inheritance from a man whom she had never seen?
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