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Captain Frazier stepped suddenly forward and hailed a passing cab, saying to himself that he must be present, at all hazards, at that meeting which was to take place between Gerelda and Hubert Varrick. "Keep yonder carriage in sight," he said, pointing out the vehicle just ahead of them, and producing, as he spoke, a bank-note, which he thrust into the cab-man's hand. The man did his duty well.
He found himself in the library, and had just time to dodge behind a jardinière on a heavy, square pedestal, which was placed in a recess in the wall, when Hubert Varrick entered. He was followed a moment later by his mother. He heard him talk over his future plans for the coming marriage on the morrow, and a great wonder filled his mind. Had not Gerelda seen him yet?
He leaned over and brushed back the curls caressingly from her forehead, as a brother might have done. "You are very good to have learned that for my sake; Gerelda," he murmured. "I thank you for it." "We must learn to sing it together," she declared. "My voice is not what it used to be," he said, apologetically.
And again Rosamond Lee said that Gerelda was not to have him, that Fate intended him for her; and she timed her visit to her guardian's when she knew he would be there. Rosamond tried hard to take an interest in the dinner, but everything seemed to go wrong with her. The tea was too weak, the biscuits too cold, and the tarts too sweet.
Gerelda grew steadily more violent, and twice Varrick's life would have paid the forfeit had it not been for his watchfulness. With great difficulty he succeeded, with the doctor's assistance, in making the change from the train to the boat. That was how his wedding journey began. As night came on, the doctor touched him again on the arm.
"Are you ready, my darling?" said Hubert. His thoughts were so confused at the time, that he had paid little heed to the messenger or noticed what he had brought to Gerelda, or what their conversation was about, or that the boy fled like a dark-winged shadow down the corridor after he had executed his errand. She took her place by his side.
I am sorry that so many of my friends believe the ridiculous story that was set afloat regarding my supposed death. I am " "Why are you here? What do you want?" cried Gerelda. "You are inclined to be brusque, my dear," he replied, tauntingly. "If you had asked me that question half an hour ago, I should have answered, 'I am here to stop your marriage with Hubert Varrick at whatever cost.
It seemed to Hubert Varrick, as he clasped his arms around Gerelda, that he must be some other person than the man who had once loved this girl to idolatry. Now the clasp of her hand or the touch of her lips did not afford him an extra pulse-glow. "Tell me, Hubert," she cried, "that you are as glad to see me as I am to see you."
"I vowed in days gone by that you should never be happy with Hubert Varrick. You promised that you would marry me, and those words changed my whole life." "Well, now that I am another's bride, what can you do about it?" sneered Gerelda. "I mean to see Varrick and have a little talk with him," he answered.
Captain Frazier looked narrowly at his companion for an instant, then he asked, quickly: "Again I ask your pardon for the questions I wish to put to you, but are you not the same minister who was sent to perform the marriage ceremony up at the Thousand Islands? and, again, the same minister who, later on, united Mr. Varrick in marriage to the beautiful Gerelda Northrup?"
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