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THE morning brought with it another visit from Captain Stanwick. This time my aunt was present. He looked at her without speaking, and turned to me, with his fiery temper showing itself already in his eyes. "I have a word to say to you in private," he began. "I have no secrets from my aunt," I answered. "Whatever you have to say, Captain Stanwick, may be said here."
The Englishman rode on one side of the carriage and the American on the other. They both talked well, but Mr. Varleigh had seen more of the world in general than Captain Stanwick, and he made himself certainly the more interesting and more amusing companion of the two.
She gathered a spray of the fairest flowers, and fastened them in the bodice of her dress. "To-morrow I shall have won the one great prize I covet," she murmured, half aloud. "After to-morrow I can defy Lester Stanwick to bring one charge against me. I shall be Rex's wife it will avail him nothing."
I will go with you to-morrow to the place of meeting." THE next evening we found Captain Stanwick waiting for us in the park. He drew back on seeing me. I explained to him, temperately and firmly, what my position was. With sullen looks he resigned himself to endure my presence. By degrees I won his confidence. My first impression of him remains unshaken the man's reason was unsettled.
I have no more to say. No. 3. Thomas Outwater, servant to Captain Stanwick, testifies and says: If I did not firmly believe my master to be out of his senses, no punishment that I could receive would prevail upon me to tell of him what I am going to tell now. But I say he is mad, and therefore not accountable for what he has done mad for love of a young woman.
My astonishment deprived me for the moment of the power of answering him. "Do you really mean that Captain Stanwick has forbidden you to call on me?" I asked as soon as I could speak. "I have exactly repeated what Captain Stanwick said to me half an hour since," Lionel Varleigh answered.
He regretted oh! so bitterly that he had parted from his sweet little girl-bride, fearing his mother's scornful anger, or through a sense of mistaken duty. "Had they but known little Daisy is my wife, they would have known how impossible was their accusation that she was with Lester Stanwick." He shuddered at the very thought of such a possibility.
Are we to behave rudely to a gentleman who has always treated us with the utmost consideration, because Captain Stanwick has tried to frighten us by cowardly threats? The commonest feeling of self-respect forbids it." My aunt protested against this outbreak of folly with perfect temper and good sense. I left her to choose between going with me to Mr. Varleigh, or letting me go to him by myself.
"I simply meant to have Stanwick abduct her from the seminary that Rex might believe him her lover and turn to me for sympathy. I will not think of it," she cried; "I am not one to flinch from a course of action I have marked out for myself, no matter what the consequences may be, if I only gain Rex's love."
My inquiries informed me that Captain Stanwick had in the first instance produced a favorable impression on her. The less showy qualities of Mr. Varleigh had afterward grown on her liking; aided greatly by the repelling effect on her mind of the Captain's violent language and conduct when he had reason to suspect that his rival was being preferred to him. When she knew the horrible news of Mr.
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