A Daughter of Maryland — page 95: what you’re looking at

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"3 A DAUGHTER OF MARYLAND. CHAPTER X. | A STERN PURSUIT. CARROLL SOUTHARD’S mind was filled with conflicting thoughts as he parted with Aurian Lancier and went toward the old Granary. | ‘This seems cowardly,’’ he said half aloud, as he entered the ruins. ‘‘If harm should fall to her through this action of mine I could never forget that it was due to me. Strange that I should get into this miserable tangle, when my motives had been so purely peaceful. I had hoped to bring about a reconciliation between myself and the Lan- ciers, and through them see if something could not be done to restore my old home to its former state, though nothing it seems can lift this cloud from my life enough to induce me to go back there to live. Father, I wish I could lift the veil from those scenes. It seems to be the very worst would be lighter than this dark uncertainty. Now I ‘have got into this plight over a poor old negro and am more helpless than ever. How quiet it seems! I wonder how she has man- aged to stop them from coming down here. What if they should take it into their heads to harm her? I must not allow that. - If the worst should come it would be better for me to give myself up.’’ Without stopping longer in the old mill, he silently left the place by a rent in the wall down near to the river bank, to creep swiftly forward along the edge of the ‘stream, realizing that he was incurring considerable risk in doing so. But in his anxiety over the fortunes of Aurian ~~ cS (ere) cComicboo a)