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Even Stanwick's persecution found an excuse in her innocent, unsuspecting little heart. "He sought to save me from being taken back when he called me his wife," she thought. "He believed I was free to woo and win, because I dared not tell him I was Rex's wife." Yet the thought of Stanwick always brought a shudder to her pure young mind.
A low muttered curse burst from Stanwick's lips upon his return, as he took in the situation at a single glance. As Daisy's eyes fell upon Stanwick's face she uttered a piteous little cry: "Save me from him save me!" she said, hysterically, growing rapidly so alarmingly worse that Stanwick was forced to leave the room, motioning the doctor to follow him into the hall.
Quietly she counted over the little store in her purse by the moon's rays. "Seventy dollars! Oh, I could never use all that in my life!" she cried. "Besides, I could never touch one cent of Stanwick's money. It would burn my fingers I am sure it would!" Folding the bill carefully in two she placed it beneath her little snowy ruffled pillow.
"Rex!" she cried, in a low, hoarse voice, staggering toward him; but he recoiled from her, and she saw Stanwick's letter in his hands; and she knew in an instant all her treachery was revealed; and without another word pale as death but with head proudly erect, she swept with the dignity of a princess from the scene of her bitter defeat, closely followed by her cowering mother.
She laughed with a laugh that made even Stanwick's blood run cold a horrible laugh. "I do not grieve that she is dead," she said. "You ought to understand by this time I shall allow nothing to come between Rex and me." "You forget the fine notions of honor your handsome lover entertains; it may not have occurred to you that he might object at the eleventh hour."
Beyond the vague threats which had escaped Captain Stanwick's lips threats which I own I was rash enough to despise I had no warning whatever of the dreadful events which happened at Maplesworth on the day after our return to Nettlegrove Hall. I can only add that I am ready to submit to any questions that may be put to me. Pray don't think me a heartless woman. My worst fault was ignorance.
She saw the terrible glance that leaped into his eyes when he mentioned Stanwick's name, and how he ground his teeth, like one silently breathing a terrible curse. Then his voice fell to a whisper. "I soon repented of my harshness," he said, "and I went back to Elmwood; but, oh, the pity of it the pity of it I was too late; little Daisy, my bride, was dead!
"It rests with you, Miss Laroche, to decide whether I shall remain here, or whether I shall relieve you of my presence by leaving the room." "What can you possibly mean?" I asked. "Is it your wish," he went on, "that I should pay you no more visits except in Captain Stanwick's company, or by Captain Stanwick's express permission?"
She never once mentioned Stanwick's name, or Septima's, but called incessantly for Rex and poor old Uncle John. "Who in the world do you suppose Rex is?" said Matilda, thoughtfully. "That name is continually on her lips the last word she utters when she closes her eyes, the first word to cross her lips when she awakes. That must certainly be the handsome young fellow she met at the gate.
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