Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 222: what you’re looking at

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A SEVERE THREAT. 215 forward, and dealt Lola a fearful blow; then, wrenching the jewel from her hand, he thrust it into his own pocket, and turning, ere the other two frightened women could raise an alarm, he swept Dot from his path as though she had been a cobweb, and seizing’ Geraldine in his arms, he caught up a thick shawl from a chair near by, and threw it over her head, com- pletely smothering her cries, Then through the door he darted, - and down the stairs, likea madman. Out into the blackness of the night the cowardly ruffian hastened to where a carriage stood waiting. Geraldine, apparently lifeless, was thrust inside. ee in after her, and the carriage rolled away like the wind, CHAPTER XXIV. SIR JOHN SHOWS HIS HAND. ‘You are my wife, madam. The law of the land will justify my course. I have done more than many men would have done, in taking you back at all. The least that you can do in return is to obey me, and show me the affection which a wife ought to show toward a husband.” And Sir John Sydney paused, flushed and angry—his small eyes glowing with dull fire. Geraldine, standing at the window of her own room at Sydney House, laughed scornfully. White, and thin, and wan as she was, there was nevertheless a look in her eyes which kept the baronet at a distance. ‘‘Obey you /” she sneered, with cutting scorn. ‘‘No, sir, I shall never sink so low as that! Sir John Sydney, I intend to force you to do as I demand, for Iam going to be rid of you effectually. Sir John Sydney, I intend to have you arrested on the charge of murder /” : _- He started and turned pale, and an involuntary shudder passed over his bulky frame. But he smiled derisively. ‘* Your proof?” he demanded. Gomicboo (E(o) =) cS