His Other Wife: A Novel — page 163: what you’re looking at

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LOST. 155 Vernois and his companion were lost to sight among the thick foliage and the shrubbery of the wood. ‘“Why did they not wait for my return?” asked Miss Draper, with intense annoyance. . ““Oh, we shall catch them in a moment; they can scarcely be out of hearing.” Leda led the way up the river-shore toward the cove they had proposed to visit, and which was one of the fea- tures of interest in this beautiful locality. Of course they reached the destined spot without ever catching sight or sound of the creole and his charge, who were by that time a mile distant de/ow their starting point at the fort. Alice. Draper looked anxiously among the different groups collected along the sloping bank of the clear inlet for the graceful form of her pupil; but neither Faith nor the creole were to be seen. ‘‘Where can they be?” she said, anxiously, touching Leda’s arm as she spoke. ‘‘Somewhere around, I dare say. They are neither of imbecile, and can certainly find their way without our assistance, I would think.” By no means satisfied with this view of the case, Miss Draper questioned some persons who were near her con- cerning the missing ones, ‘“They cannot have arrived yet. We have been here over an hour, and must have seen them had they come within that period of time,” was the reply she obtained from the lady that she had accosted; and who added, see- comicbooks: (E(0)