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Updated: June 16, 2025
Bending with palpitating heart over the still form lying there, Jessie Bain muttered: "No one will ever know," taking a quick glance about the room. "Gerelda and I are all alone together all alone!"
I shall not intrude upon you again until we reach Montreal. You can send for your mother; it would be best for me to leave you in her charge. Telegraph back to her from the next station we arrive at. The moment we reach Montreal we part forever!" But at that instant a strange event happened. Gerelda had been looking intently out of the window.
As for Gerelda, her life hung by the slenderest of threads for many days after, and during these anxious hours no one could induce Jessie Bain to leave her bedside. But at last the hour came when the doctors pronounced Gerelda out of danger.
Varrick, continuing: "I will go on to say that the butler informs me that he found no door or window open in any part of the house, when he opened up the place this morning. "Have you missed anything, Miss Duncan?" "No," said Gerelda, quietly. "And you, Miss Bain?" "No.
The whole fault is mine, because I have not explained this affair to you before. I put it off from day to day." In a few brief words he explained. In her own mind, quick as a flash, a sudden thought came to her that there was more behind this than had been told to her. She had wondered why Gerelda Northrup, the beauty and the heiress, fled from her handsome son at the very altar.
If you call round here a few months later, I might find use for your services." Gerelda had been so confident of getting an opportunity to stay beneath that roof, that the shock of these words nearly made her cry out and betray herself. "Is there no young lady in the house to whom I could teach this art?" she asked.
In the excitement no one had remembered Gerelda; now the servants carried her to a boudoir across the hall, and summoned a doctor. "If this poor girl recovers it will be little short of a miracle," he said. Through all this commotion Jessie Bain slept on, little realizing the tragic events that were transpiring around her. No one thought of awakening her.
Peering again out of the foliage which concealed him so well, he saw Gerelda cautiously approach through the open door-way, and again he was compelled to be a listener to all that transpired. Then, like a flash, came the terrible denouement, and Frazier, crouching behind the huge pillar, distinctly saw the butler enter and he witnessed the crime.
Great Heaven! why did I linger by her side when I knew my danger? There are times when I could almost swear that Gerelda cares quite as much for me as she does for Hubert Varrick. If I had had a fair chance I think I could have won her from him. No, I will not see her again I will leave here this very night." The captain rang the bell furiously, and called for a brandy and soda.
There was something in the tone of her voice that frightened him. He looked into her face. A grayish pallor overspread it. To Varrick's infinite surprise, Gerelda commenced to laugh immoderately; and these spells of laughter so increased as the moments flew by, that he became greatly alarmed. He wondered what he could do or say to comfort her.
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