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Totantora tore through the water after the escaping motor-boat as though he, too, were propelled by a motor. And his motor was more powerful, in a short race at least, than that driving the launch in which Wonota was held prisoner. Before the men who had abducted the Osage maiden could get their boat out of the little cove, Totantora reached the stern of it.
So far its simple-minded inhabitants and the suite of the princess were content with the socialist explanation of her disappearance; and three counties round were being searched by active policemen on bicycles for some one who had seen a suspicious motor-car containing Socialists and a princess. It was the general belief that she had been chloroformed and abducted through her bedroom window.
"Doctor Oleander, then, must be the man who abducted her before, else how could he keep the assignation?" "Yes," said Miriam, "that is the worst of it. Poor Mollie! it will drive her mad. She detests the man with all her heart. If she is in his power, he will show her no mercy. Mr. Ingelow, can you aid her, or must I seek her alone and unaided?" Mr.
"Then I was not deceived. She has been abducted by that scoundrel, Talizac!" "Talizac?" repeated the maniac, with a foolish laugh. "Oh, I know him, do not let him in; he brings unhappiness unhappiness!" "Then he has been here?" cried Fanfaro, terror-stricken. "No, not here in Sachemont I oh! my poor head." With a heart-rending cry the poor woman sank to the ground unconscious.
Pardon the question, but between us it is really necessary if I am to be of service to you." "On my word as a gentleman." "That is sufficient." "In fact, I do not believe that she has been abducted at all. Will you let me use your pad and pen for a minute?" The other pushed over the required articles. Courtlandt scrawled a few words and passed back the pad. "For me to read?" "Yes," moodily.
Nora could not be moved from the belief that Courtlandt had abducted her; but Celeste was now positive that he had had nothing to do with it. He did not impress her as a man who would abduct a woman, hold her prisoner for five days, and then liberate her without coming near her to press his vantage, rightly or wrongly. He was too strong a personage.
"I am ready to hear what you have to say," came at last from Miss Garrison. "It is not necessary to inform you that you were abducted " "Not in the least! The memory of the past two days is vivid enough," said Miss Garrison, with cutting irony in her voice. "But it may interest you to know the names of your abductors," said the other, calmly.
The affair seemed to her just then so plain and straightforward. 'Because one of two things may have happened. Either Eugen may have been, in plain language, abducted, or he may have had his own reasons for changing his programme and keeping in the background out of reach of telegraph and post and railways. 'What sort of reasons? 'Do not ask me.
Sundry adventurers had made valuable friendships by returning to the French capital with riches and curiosities from the New World. Even Indians had been abducted as gifts for royalty, and this young ambassador resolved that when he returned to his own country the skin of the white deer should be one of the trophies that would win him a smile from Louis.
As for that article of the Code-Napoleon which you have just told me of, and which excepts from liability to prosecution the abductor who marries the young girl abducted by him, it reminds me that according to the laws of Bretagne, forcible abduction, followed by marriage, was not punished.
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