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Updated: June 29, 2025
There came the silver cross, the candles, the dark-faced priest, reading dramatically to himself as he walked, and the body of Lester in a great black coffin, with silver handles, carried by the pall-bearers, who kept an even pace. Jennie stiffened perceptibly, her nerves responding as though to a shock from an electric current. She did not know any of these men. She did not know Robert.
She left town just ten days ago for Belair, where we were all waiting for her, and nobody has set eyes on her since, sir!" An Astonishing Disappearance Mr. Royce grasped the arms of his chair convulsively, and remained for a moment speechless under the shock. Then he swung around toward me. "Come here, Lester," he said hoarsely. "I needed you once before, and I need you now.
For an instant, I felt another little hand in mine, a pair of blue eyes smiled up at me in a way "Good-by, Mr. Lester," said a voice. "I shall be all impatience till we meet again." "So shall I," and I brightened. "That was nice of you, Miss Kemball." "Oh, I shall be anxious to hear how you succeeded," she retorted. "You will bring Miss Holladay to us?" "If we find her, yes."
"I know, you will keep your vow." The false ring of apparent candor did not deceive her; she knew it would be a case of diamond cut diamond. "That is spoken like your own generous self, Lester," she said, softly, clasping his hands in her own white, jeweled ones. "You pained me by your distrust."
"You'll get stronger, papa," she said. "You're going to get well. Then I'll take you out driving." She was so glad she had been able to make him comfortable these last few years. As for Lester, he was affectionate and considerate.
In another instant I should have said yes, she had pleased me; she would have answered; and just because she is a woman I should have had to say something which she might have taken as she chose; so that it would have been all over for Ronald Lester Starr; but at this moment the two boats began to slow down.
"And therefore your conduct was criminal. When you consider a woman of my age, with my heart " "And with your blessed, brass-tack head," Paula cried. "For two apples I'd box your ears." "And for one apple I'd hug you, wet as I am," Paula laughed back. "Anyway, we did fool Captain Lester. Didn't we, Captain?" "Don't speak to me," that doughty mariner muttered darkly.
There were really some delightful hours among the four. Lester liked to take the little seven-year-old school-girl between his knees and tease her. He liked to invert the so-called facts of life, to propound its paradoxes, and watch how the child's budding mind took them.
I resolved to wrap myself once more in the solitude of my heart. But let me not repeat what I have said before, somewhat prematurely, in my narrative. I resolved I struggled in vain, Fate had ordained, that the sweet life of Madeline Lester should wither beneath the poison tree of mine.
At the farther extremity of the town stood Miss Lester's dwelling. It was a detached and small building, standing a little from the road; and Walter paused for some moments at the garden-gate, and gazed round him before he followed his young guide, who, tripping lightly up the gravel-walk to the door, rang the bell, and inquired if Miss Lester was within?
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