His Other Wife: A Novel — page 261: what you’re looking at

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AN UN¥UST STEWARD. 253 meet him soon. God deal with you according to your manner of fulfilling the trust reposed in your hands by the dead !” ; As she concluded this solemn sentence, she fell into one of those long, trance-like swoons, similar to the one that succeeded to her recital of these facts to Gordon Warren. From that time her strength had been rapidly waning until he saw her. She had tacitly acquiesced in all that Croft required of her in the settlement of her ruined estate, and her signature to the document which led to Warren’s acquait- ance with Lucerne and its inmates was the last of the transactions to which she had subscribed her name. The fact that Gordon Warren had demanded of Croft a suspension of the sale of Lucerne until his return from the West, was quite sufficient to convince Croft that Mrs. Morgan had said something to arouse the young man’s suspicions with regard to the professional administration of Lambert. Morgan’s will. Mr. Croft decided to put a final quietus on his partner's scruples by marrying the girl Leda. It was an alternative that was by no means attractive to the cold, mercenary heart of the lawyer; but, once em- barked in the matrimonial adventure with so beautiful and seductive a woman as Leda, Croft was surprised into a passion for the girl, the ardor of which surpassed all his self-knowledge, (E(@) Eomicbooks: