Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 237: what you’re looking at

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230 A SEVERE THREAT. And he does contemplate removing you to an insane asylum, there to remain until you come to your senses,” For answer, Geraldine turned to a tiny, curtained alcove near, It held a piano, and the crimson velvet curtains were drawn closely. She lifted them slowly, and Lionel Vernon saw, with a quick start of alarm and dismay, that Geraldine’s maid sat there, white and still as a statue. ‘*You have heard what Mr. Vernon has said, have you not?” Geraldine asked, addressing the frightened girl. “Yes, my lady; I heard it every word.” ‘* Repeat those words as nearly as you can.” ‘« He said, my lady, that Sir John was going to place you in an insane asylum, although he knows you are not insane, to force you to submit to his wishes.” “‘Very good! You would be able to repeat those words in a court -of law ?” | ‘‘T would, my lady.” Geraldine smiled triumphantly. ‘“‘T think that you are worsted in /hzs battle, Mr. Lionel Vernon,” she said, coldly. And, crushing an imprecation between his set teeth, the miserable villain left the room, and the house itself. Geraldine breathed freely once more. The blow was warded off, and, for the present, she was safe, CHAPTER XXIX. LADY VENETIA’S OATH. Lola had left the court-room, and had gone out to breathe the fresh air, for she was very faint and weak’from excitement, and the rehearsal of her mother’s wrongs—that sad story of an unhappy marriage, sin, shame, and crime. All of a sudden she came to a halt, and a low cry escaped Eomichbooks.c¢co