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Heath that I am ready," and as Margery went out, she bowed her head in prayer for a blessing on her new life. The next moment she heard Sir William's step on the stairs, and she went out to meet him. How his face lighted as he looked upon her! How his heart throbbed with exultation as he thought: "This peerless girl is mine! Heathdale has never known a mistress so fair!"
He would cable Heathdale to be notified if Virgie should make her appearance there; meantime he would do his utmost to find her here. He thanked the clergyman for his kindness, and bade him farewell, feeling much relieved regarding his wife, yet still very sad at heart at the mystery surrounding her.
Sara Farnum, Palace Hotel, San Francisco, Cal.," and the very next post from Heathdale carried on its way the missive that was destined to help accomplish one of the greatest wrongs that had ever been perpetrated.
Her brother might never consent to marry again she feared he would not and poor Sadie Farnum's reviving hopes would again be crushed; but, if he did, she felt very sure that her son, Percy and a noble young fellow he was, too would be very likely to inherit Heathdale, while Lillian would doubtless receive a handsome dowry when she came to marry.
Heath to read these, and then return them to her." The nurse shut the door, and then came to Virgie, with a letter and paper in her hand. For an instant she thought it might be a letter for her, and she seized it with an eager cry. But no; it was addressed to Mrs. Farnum, though it bore the Heathdale postmark, and was in the handwriting of Lady Linton.
"Mamma's heart has been nearly broken at the thought of this ill-assorted marriage, and I believe the excitement and grief would have killed her outright, if you had brought her," with a withering glance at Virgie's picture, "to Heathdale to reign as mistress." Sir William was tried almost beyond endurance.
Miriam Heath, on the contrary, had been rather a plain-looking girl, somewhat cold and repelling in manner, and was almost an old maid before she was married; thus she was often an inmate of her friend's palatial home, and became much interested in her children, and little Sadie Farnum had scarcely reached her teens before the two women began to plan a union between the young heir of Heathdale and the heiress to half a million pounds.
"A day of reckoning will surely come for him," Virgie answered, firmly; "for, if this child lives, she will one day make her appearance at Heathdale and claim her heritage. There may be other children, but she will have the first right there.
Did he suppose, because England is three thousand miles from America, that he could perpetrate this wrong with impunity? I tell you it shall never be! I will face him in the home of his <i>unimpeachable ancestors,</i> and see if he dares to repudiate his lawful wife!" "My Child Is the Heiress of Heathdale!" Mrs.
He reached Heathdale just in season to see the sands of her life run out and to close her eyes in their last long sleep; then they laid her in the family vault, and Sir William felt as if he had nothing now to bind him to his home. "I cannot stay here I must go away again he said one day, in despair, to his sister, and her heart sank at his words.
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