His Other Wife: A Novel — page 34: what you’re looking at

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26 THE WIDOW’S CONFESSION. which the girl had become familiar. She showed no nervousness nor excitement whatever, but seemed con- fident in her skill. He therefore withdrew to the room in which he had first beheld the beautiful tableau, and half an hour later Leda appeared through the vailed archways, bearing in one hand a small lighted lamp, behind which her face shone as that of a young goddess. ‘<Your mother is better, I trust?” said Warren, as he moved forward to meet her. ‘‘Yes; she is now asleep—she always slumbers pro- foundly for hours after one of these attacks. I want you to tell me what caused this one, Mr. Warren?” She was standing opposite to him, with a small ebony table between, on which her right hand rested. Her tone was serious and anxious, yet a little imperious. ‘“Your mother: was discussing an annoying business matter with me, Miss Morgan.” ‘‘Will you state to me the precise nature of that dis- cussion ?”’ ‘‘T have not the right to do so.. Mrs. Morgan is the proper person to answer your question.” «© “That is precisety what she will not-do. I have asked her, prayed her to explain the meaning of certain words which she uttered in the first instant of consciousness after her swoon. She tells me they were meaningless ravings. I know better. There is some dreadful trouble on. my mother’s mind, and I think she has told you, a stranger, what she refuses to confide to her daughter. Is it so?” comicbooks:com