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Updated: June 27, 2025
'My reason is with you, Mr. Lyle, said the Duchess, 'as well as my heart. They came along the valley, a procession of Nature, whose groups an artist might have studied. The old man, who loved the pilgrimage too much to avail himself of the privilege of a substitute accorded to his grey hairs, came in person with his grandchild and his staff.
While she was thus musing, Lyle continued: "What seemed to me strangest of all, is, that though I cannot remember ever seeing a living face like the one in my dream, I have seen what I believe is a photograph of it." "When? and where?" asked Miss Gladden quickly, hoping to find some key to the problem she was trying to solve. "A few weeks after your coming, and at Jack's cabin," Lyle replied.
Horrible! "Before we could stop him, he sprang out of his cot and began pulling on his clothes. When the nurses tried to hold him down, he fought with them. "'Do you think you can keep me here, he shouted, 'when they are plotting to hang me? I am going with you to that house! he cried at Lyle. 'When you find those bodies I shall be beside you. It is my right. He is my brother.
When it comes to that, where is yours? How dare you suffer Lyle Derwent to kneel at your feet? How dare you, I say!" "Christal Christal! Hush!" "I will not! I will speak. I wish every word were a dagger to stab you wicked, wicked woman! who have come between me and my lover for he is my lover, and I love him." "You love him?" "You stole him from me you bewitched him with your vile flatteries.
Rutherford was thinking of some one far away, under European skies, and wishing that she were present with him there, to make his happiness complete. And Lyle, with that face of wondrous beauty, yet calm and inscrutable as that of the sphinx, had any power as yet passed over the hidden depths of her woman's nature, and troubled the waters?
She immediately withdrew to the kitchen, and smiled to herself presently, as she saw Minty, with an air of great importance, starting out in the same direction. She had been gone about half an hour, when Lyle, who was again seated in the porch, caught sight of her moon-shaped face peering around the corner of the house in frantic endeavors to attract Haight's attention.
Other introductions followed, and the entire company entered the long, low dining room, whither Lyle had already preceded them to see that everything was in perfect readiness. Exclamations of surprise and pleasure were heard on all sides, as the table had been tastefully decorated by the skillful fingers of the ladies, with wild flowers, and their beauty and fragrance filled the room.
That day, a fine-looking, elderly gentleman, who had just arrived from the east to purchase some mining property, came to the house for dinner, and took his meals there for the two days following, during which time, Lyle was not allowed her liberty. Not until nearly a year later did Mrs. Maverick learn that the eastern stranger, whose coming had so terrified Maverick, was Lyle's grandfather.
Late as it was when Houston and Van Dorn returned to the house, Miss Gladden and Lyle had not retired.
Houston opened the door, and Ned Rutherford, looking in, was entirely unable to comprehend the scene. Houston held in his hand a small gold locket and a photograph which he seemed to be comparing with each other. Lyle looked very pale, but radiantly happy. Morton was standing near, while Miss Gladden still knelt at her side, her eyes overflowing with tears of joy.
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