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And of course you can't be expected to feel very kindly to her who has usurped your place. But I would let her alone if I were you. Victor is master here, and his wife must be mistress, and naturally he doesn't like it. You might go too far, and then " "He might turn me out of Catheron Royals is that what you are trying to say, Aunt Helena?" "Well, my dear " "Victor was to see you yesterday.
How would the one bear their scrutiny, the other their pity? But Miss Catheron, handsome, smiling, brilliant, came in among them with eyes that said: "Pity me if you dare!" And upon Sir Victor's arm there followed the small, graceful figure, the sweet, fair face of a girl who did not look one day more than sixteen by all odds the prettiest girl in the rooms.
It is incrusted with blood dry, dark, and clotted up to the hilt. A strong, sure hand had certainly done the deed. For the first time the thought strikes him could a woman's hand, strike that one strong, sure, deadly blow? Miss Catheron is a fragile-looking young lady, with a waist he could span, slim little fingers, and a delicate wrist.
"Being five o'clock of a sultry summer day, I don't intend to try. Tell us at once, Portia, and let us go." "Then prepare to be surprised! Sir Victor Catheron!" "Portia!" "Ah! I thought the name would interest you. Sir Victor Catheron, my dear, alive and in the flesh, though, upon my word, at first sight I almost took him to be his own ghost. Look at her, Mary," laughs her sister derisively.
Over the sweep of the storm, the rush of the rain, comes another sound a sound she has been listening for, longing for, praying for the rapid roll of carriage wheels up the drive. There can be but one visitor to Catheron Royals to-night, at this hour and in this storm its master. She stands still as a stone, white as a statue, waiting.
She advances like a sleep-walker, that dazed, dumb horror still in her eyes, the whiteness of death on her face. She walks over and looks down upon the dead mistress of Catheron Royals. No change comes over her she softens neither into pity nor tears.
"And there shall be no more death; neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain." A cry rang through the room, the long, wailing cry of widowhood. She fell on her knees by the bed. An hour after, the passing bell tolled sombrely through the darkness from the steeple of Chesholm Church, telling all whom it might concern that Sir Victor Catheron had gone home.
Her perfect lips curled scornfully, her eyes shot forth gleams of contempt, but her voice was very quiet. "And again I ask why why has Sir Victor Catheron given himself all this unnecessary trouble?" "Unnecessary! You call it that! A husband's search for a lost wife." "Stop, Miss Catheron!" she lifted her hand, and her eyes flashed. "You make a mistake.
How artfully he began his work, how delicately and skillfully he "pumped" old Hooper dry, no words can tell. Mr. Juan Catheron was an "uncommon bad lot," he had come to the house and forced an entrance into the dining-room the night of Lady Catheron's arrival there had been a quarrel, and he had been compelled to leave. Bit by bit this was drawn from Mr. Hooper.
He took in his, the hand hanging so loosely by her side, the hand that wore the ring. "What a pretty hand you have, Edie, and how well diamonds become it. I think you were born to wear diamonds, my handsome cousin, and walk in silk attire. A magnificent ring, truly an heirloom, no doubt, in the Catheron family. My dear cousin, Trix has been telling me the news.
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