His Other Wife: A Novel — page 364: what you’re looking at

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356 LEDA’S HOST. CHAPTER XL. LEDAS HOST, It is now almost a month since the exciting incidents of the trial and imprisonment of the criminal, Mathew Croft. Gossip has expended herself (beg pardon if the fem- inine pronoun is incorrect) upon the details of the dark story of his former and latter crimes, and vituperation has done its worst with the name of the convict. As to the strange, silent woman, Rachel Croft, whose dismal form has flitted like some ‘‘perturbed spirit” through this history, who rose, shadow-like, from her hiding-place, to confront the author of her woes at the bar of justice, and then was seen no more, not a trace has been discovered since the moment she disappeared from the witness-stand. Rumor declares that ‘‘Mr. Craig, the prosecuting attor- ney, must know of her whereabouts, since no one eése knows,” and, as this seems to be quite as good a reason as rumor generally has for her opinions, we shall accept and pass it by. A few days after the trial, Gordon Warren was able to be removed from Lucerne to his own home. At his earnest Eomicbooks. ¢o