Guy Hammersley; or, Clearing his Name — page 28: what you’re looking at

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GUY HAMMERSLEY, 5G CHAPTER III. AN ASTOUNDING CHARGE. As soon as the doctor had departed, Colonel Starr, who had been conferring aside with Miss Stanwix, came forward. ‘“‘I trust, madam,” he began, addressing himself to Mrs. Hammersley, ‘that you will pardon my in- trusion, but I can only excuse it by saying that I could not go on my way until I had learned that you had suffered no serious consequences from your dreadful experience. I wish youa very good morn- ing,” and he bowed himself out. Miss Stanwix withdrew immediately after, and mother and son were left together. Then Mrs. Ham- mersley broke down, simply from a revulsion of feeling. Looking up in her son’s face through her tears she murmured : ‘‘When I felt myself going and saw that horse over me, not one thought did I give to myself, but all to you, Guy! ‘What will become of him if anything happens to me?’ was my inward cry, and then to find that I have escaped; that I can still work for you. Ah, Heaven is merciful; and J am afraid none of us sufficiently appreciate our Gomicboo cS (E(0) m