The Craze of Christina — page 95: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

The Craze of Christina. gi fair self. For she meant first and foremost to make Mark Clifford fall desperately in love with her! This was not an unwarrantable in- tention, because men were in the constant habit of falling in love with her, and Chris knew by experience that she was quite able to fool any man unlucky enough to be enamored of her, to the very top of his bent. Her lovers had hith- erto taken the disease very badly indeed, and once her fish was hooked she had no sort of doubt as to her being able to play him to any extent. Further than that she had no intention of going. It never for one moment entered into her scheme to marry her victim; she meant to stop short of that, of course! as soon as she had achieved her object she would promptly throw him over, remorselessly and without any shame at all! It now remains to be seen how this ex- tremely wicked young woman carried out her shocking and nefarious programme. GComichooksnco