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"I loved my husband," she said, "and if you think even for my daughter's sake I shall ever receive Ralph Scammel into my house, you make a very great mistake! Faith has married him, and she can do as she pleases, of course, but it will mean a choice between her husband and me. That is my last word," and she turned and walked out of the room, leaving Faith sobbing in her chair. Mr.
Some of the American soldiers were ready to take the lives of the captured after they had possession of the fort, in revenge for the barbarous conduct of the British towards many of our men, and especially for the mortal wound inflicted upon the brave and amiable Scammel, after he had surrendered.
She stood looking out of the window with moody eyes, and then she said abruptly: "I hate Scammel as Scammel, but there's something about Nicholas Forrester, as Nicholas Forrester " she paused. "Faith, do you know what I think?" Faith shook her head. She was always tremendously influenced by Peg; she waited with breathless eagerness now for her words.
"When I told her that you were Scammel and owned Heeler's," she repeated. "I knew, and I didn't see why she shouldn't know, too! Not that she believed it, though," she added, with a touch of chagrin. The Beggar Man made no answer, but he quickened his steps a little. He thought of Faith's strange manner towards him and Peg's words seemed all at once to have explained a great deal.
There are as good fish in the sea as any that were caught, my girl, and don't you make any mistake. Let old Scammel stay in America. Jolly good riddance, I say!" Faith did not answer, but her nerves were tearing her to pieces. Every time a man's voice sounded in the passages of the factory or a door opened suddenly she was sure it was the Beggar Man come back to find and claim her.
A short time, surely." She clasped her hands tightly in her lap, and her pretty voice sounded like steel when she spoke. "I didn't know then that you were Ralph Scammel! I didn't know then that you killed my father." It was a piteous exaggeration of the truth, and Forrester flushed to the roots of his hair, but he kept his temper admirably. He even managed a laugh as he turned to the door.
"Scammel!" she said hoarsely. "Ralph Scammel! Is that the man my daughter has married?" "It is merely an assumed name," Mr. Shawyer said quickly. "For business purposes." Mrs. Ledley was breathing fast. It was with difficulty that she at length found her voice. "Ralph Scammel is the man who ruined my husband," she said.
"Faith's mighty fond of you," she added, almost threateningly. Forrester frowned: he resented this girl's blunt, downright manner of speech, but Peg went on, quite indifferent to his obvious annoyance. "She went for me hot and strong when I told her you were Ralph Scammel. Up like a spitfire she was!" "When you told her what?" Her blue eyes met his defiantly.
"Peg, do you know who you're talking about?" she gasped. Peg laughed. "Do I? I should rather say I do! Once seen never forgotten, my dear! I'm talking about the man you were having tea with the other day Scammel, the brute we're all slaving for to make him rich." For a moment Faith stared at her friend, then she laughed. "Well, you're wrong, quite wrong," she said, with a little sigh of relief.
He was Scammel who had ruined her father, Scammel for whose sake all those girls at Heeler's factory worked and sweated, and made money whereby to enrich him. "I don't know why you came here, anyway," she said helplessly. He flushed and bit a lip, but he answered gently enough: "I came straight to you, of course! Who had a better right! Have you forgotten so soon that you are my wife?"
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