His Other Wife: A Novel — page 184: what you’re looking at

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176 THE NOTE OF DOOM. held the revelation of what bore the aspect of falseness in his wife, and treachery in his friend and associate. Divided as his life had been from Leda’s since that day when Rachel cast her ghost-like shadow between them, and keen and cruel as had been Leda’s contempt for and avoidance of him, he had conceived so deep and fierce a passion for her beauty, that although he felt himself hope- lessly cut off from the possession of it, he nevertheless suffered the furious, rending rage of a wild animal who finds some bold invader near his lair. It flashed upon him now that he had been a blind fool not to have long ago divined the meaning of Leda’s pointed interest in his young partner, whom he accused her of bringing to:Lucerne in order to marry him to Faith Hillary. His mind was too much influenced. by jealous madness to reflect on Warren’s consistent dignity toward the woman who now held his face to her heart, and rained her kisses on his unconscious brow. For one moment Croft was rendered powerless to move or speak by the violence of his emotions; but in the next, with his tusk-like teeth gnashing, and his thick lips foaming like a raging boar’s, he leaped forward, and, seizing Leda with a grip of steel, wrenched her away from the breathless white form she clung to, while he spat from. his RAISE mouth a. yeas . ~ oath. | 25 couch, still grasping. her. shoulder, and glaring, a at -her- * _ “ How dare you!” he re Oe as he Bons ber, upon. : GComicbooks: (E(@) “Sas