His Other Wife: A Novel — page 183: what you’re looking at

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THE NOTE OF DOOM. i GAs tence. He turned his tortured’ gaze full on Leda, and added: ‘* And, madam, that fatal embarkation took place just one mile de/ow the fort, while you took Miss Draper to find her charge at the cove adove it.” This last announcement was made with difficult gasps for breath, and as if he was driven to utter it by some in- “ternal agony too sharp to be resisted. At the last word, his head fell back against the char and it was plain that his consciousness. was suspended... The terrible strain upon. his brain and body, in the en- feebled state of his health, had been. too much for him; and, now: that a climax of certainty had been reached, his .overtaxed nervous fiber gave way. He lay like one dead. Hee With an impulse of wild abandonment, Leda sprang to his side, uttering a passionate cry, and. clasped the in- sensible head to her heart. CHAPTER XVIII. THE NOTE OF DOOM, ‘Either she had forgotten or recklessly ignored the pres- ence of the man who occupied, to all ie gig mei: the : position of her husband. ‘Breathless with amazement and indignation, Croft be- 3 Eomicbooks:. co