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"Now, then," he demanded, imperiously, "what do you want? I thought you were dead and " "Don't say that other word, Mr. Walraven; it is too forcible. You only hoped it. I am not dead. It's a great deal worse with me than that." "What do you want?" Mr. Walraven repeated, steadily, though his swarth face was dusky gray with rage or fear, or both. "What do you come here for to-night?
He would not dare!" "I don't know him," said Miriam; "but from what Mollie says of him, I should judge him to be capable of anything. He loves her, and he is madly jealous; and jealous men stop at nothing. Then, too, Mrs. Walraven would aid him. She hates Mollie as only one woman can hate another."
I've heard of such things. It's either that or a fit of the blue-devils!" The long, wet, windy day wore on. Mr. Walraven slept through it comfortably in his study. Mrs. Walraven had a tête-
While Carl Walraven and Sir Roger Trajenna sailed over the wide sea while Blanche Walraven ground her teeth in impotent rage up at Yonkers while Dr. Guy Orleander pursued his business in New York, and scowled darkly at the failure of his plans the daily papers burst out, one morning, with the jubilant news that Hugh Ernest Ingelow, Esq., and Miss Mollie Dane were one flesh.
A moment or two, and, in rags and tatters, hair streaming, and feet bare, on the stage bounded Fanchon, the Cricket. There was an uproarious greeting. Evidently it was not Miss Dane's first appearance before that audience, and still more evidently she was a prime favorite. Mr. Walraven dropped his bill, poised his lorgnette, and prepared to stare his fill.
The girl obeyed in dire alarm. In an instant she was back. "Miss Dane's not up yet, and says she doesn't expect to be for some time. She says you'd better not wait for her, as you will very likely be painfully hungry if you do." "I thought so," remarked Mrs. Carl, shortly. Mr. Walraven bit his lip, the baronet looked like a thundercloud, but both took their places.
"You will find to your cost there is method in my madness, Mrs. Walraven. What say you, Doctor Oleander? Have you the hardihood to face me with a deliberate lie, too?" Dr. Oleander was not deficient in a certain dog-like courage and daring. He saw his position in a moment saw that denial would be utterly useless. His own mother would prove against him it if came to law.
The ceremony was to take place in the lofty drawing-room, and be followed by a ball. This somewhat obsolete way of doing things was by the express desire of Sir Roger, and on the morrow they were to start by steamer for the old land. It was all one to Mollie, and Mr. and Mrs. Walraven acquiesced in every wish of the Welshman. The hour fixed for the ceremony was ten o'clock.
Left alone, Carl Walraven resumed his march up and down the apartment, with a gloomier face and more frowning brows than ever. It was bad enough before, without this tiger-cat of a Miriam coming to make things ten times worse. It was all bravado, his defiance of her, and he knew it. He was completely in her power, to ruin for life if she chose to speak.
You are to dance the polka quadrille with her, are you not? After the polka quadrille, then. And now let us part, or they will begin to think we are hatching another Gunpowder Plot." "Or Mr. Carl Walraven may be jealous," suggested Dr. Oleander, with an unpleasant laugh. "I say, Blanche, the golden-haired Mollie couldn't be his daughter, could she?" Mrs. Walraven's black eyes flashed.
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