Caught in the Snare — page 155: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIII. MORNING. NEXT “And over all there hung a baleful gloom— The step stole fearful through each shadowy root. Dark, sumptuous, solemn as some Eastern pile une Where mutes keep watch—a home without a smile.” | u oi iQ BULWER. ae Pia. 2, te GAA Tis © ate The red light of coming morn dispersed the ) r ay revelers from Percival Hall. One by one they departed, until where lately all was music and a ge mirth profound silence reigned. 1 a a And father and mother, brother and sister, all 1 slept, little dreaming of the fate of her they Mat loved. During the night, when the gay hours t sacle flitted by on “rosy wings,” no presentiment of I ‘what was passing in the lonely house on the bluff bee arose before them to mar their festivity. And he now, all unconscious of her absence or her dread- , ae ful fate, they slept peacefully. eee “Where is Edith?” asked Major Percival, as _. the family assembled a few hours after around the breakfast table. a tr | “Don’t know, I’m sure,” replied Nell, to whom = )| the question was addressed ; “I haven’t seen her -) since early last night.” “She was not among the dancers during the morning,” remarked Gus; “I missed her and heard several wondering at her absence.” comicbooks.com