Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 220: what you’re looking at

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A) SEVERE THREAT. 213. your pretty farce is ended; beware, Lady Geraldine, that it does not become a tragedy.” ‘* Murderer! beware!” The words were breathed faintly into his ear. He started, and turned deadly pale. Poor Stella’s dying words had _ never been forgotten ; and they still had power to blanch his face and strike terror to his heart. He trernbled violently, and peered curiously about the room ; - and his eyes, full of horror, fell upon Lola. With a muttered curse, he turned as though to fly, then he paused, white and terror-stricken. ‘* Stella,” he panted, in a frightened tone, ‘‘ why do you come back from your grave to haunt me?’ Lola folded her arms upon her bosom, and confronted him calmly. ‘‘John Gordon,” she cried aloud, in her sweet, clear, ring- ing voice, ‘‘ your secret is exposed to the light of day at last, I know you—villain! murderer. My own father—I blush to own it—yet your hand struck my mother, Stella Gilroy, down in death.” His eyes were on her face—riveted there; for the moment even Geraldine was forgotten. ‘‘Who—are—you ?” he panted, huskily. ‘*Who am |?” she cried, scornfully, her dark beautiful eyes flashing fire. ‘‘I am Lola Gordon, your own child, and the child of that accursed, thrice accursed marriage, which———”’ ‘Marriage !” he interrupted, with stinging emphasis. ‘‘Your own words condemn yourself. You are achild without a name, for there was no marriage in existence between Stella Gilroy— if, indeed, she was your mother—and myself. I am not John Gordon. You are mad! Iam Sir John Sydney.” ‘¢Vou are a villain !” cried Dot, springing forward, no longer able to restrain her indignation—‘‘a villain and a murderer! You shall be proclaimed as such, and hunted down to the fate you deserve! Leave this house!” she panted, passion- Eomicboo <S (E(0)