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My lady went to the, window and waved her hand to him, and watched him out of sight. About ten minutes after, while she still stood there, the door opened and Miss Inez came in and asked for Sir Victor; she said she wanted him. Then she stooped over and looked at the baby, calling him the heir of Catheron Royals.
The young lady gave her evidence clearly and concisely perfectly calm in tone and manner. "On the Friday evening in question, the deceased Lady Catheron and myself had a misunderstanding. It was my fault. I made a remark that wounded her, and she retorted by saying I should leave Catheron Royals on the morrow. I answered equally angrily, that I would not, and left the room.
But from that word or two, I infer this Sir Victor Catheron was here to see you last night." Lady Helena was trifling nervously with her spoon it fell with a clash now into her cup, and her terrified eyes looked piteously at her companion.
"It is this, then that when I am gone, you will take what is your right and your due. This you must promise me; no more false pride the widow of Sir Victor Catheron must take what is hers. Juan Catheron is married to a Creole lady, and living in the island of Martinique, a reformed man. He inherits the title and Catheron Royals, with its income, as heir-at-law.
"Let me alone, Victor Catheron," she cried. "I have kept my secret for twenty-three years do you think you will wring it from me all in a moment now? What right have you to question me to say I shall tell, or shall not? If you knew all you would know you have no rights whatever none no right to ask any woman to share, your life no right, if it comes to that, even to the title you bear!"
She turned from the life she pictured with a shudder of abhorrence. And Charley was not of the stuff the toilers of the earth are made. She would never spoil his life for him as well as her own not if her heart broke in giving him up. But it would not break who breaks her heart in these days? She would say "Yes" to-morrow to Sir Victor Catheron.
And sleeping she dreamed, that all dressed in scarlet, and wearing a crown of scarlet camellias, she was standing up to be married to Sir Victor Catheron with Mr. Charley Stuart as officiating clergyman, when the door opened, and the murdered lady of Trixy's story came stalking in, and whirled her screaming away in her ghostly arms.
Presently an endless stretch of ivied wall appears in view, inclosing a primeval forest, it seems to Edith; and Lady Helena sits up and rubs her eyes, and says it is Catheron Royals. The girl leans forward and strains her eyes, but can make out nothing in the darkness save that long line of wall and waving trees. This is to be Trixy's home, she thinks happy Trixy!
"I tried to once or twice I did indeed, but you know what a coward I am. And mamma forbade my telling that is the truth. She said I had been a little fool that was all over and done with no need to be a great fool, telling my own folly. And after we were married, and I saw you jealous of every man I looked at you know you were, sir! I was more scared than ever. I thought Juan Catheron was dead.
Her love, her duty, her allegiance, her thoughts all were due to Sir Victor now. In the quiet days that were to be there, she would try to forget the love of her life try to remember that of all men on earth Sir Victor Catheron was the only man she had any right to think of. And she succeeded partly.
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