His Other Wife: A Novel — page 389: what you’re looking at

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THE LOST IS FOUND. 381 and decided to stop with Leda and communicate. to her the joyful news of Faith’s safety. In his bewildering de- light on this account, he seemed to have forgotten, or to ignore his former resentment and mistrust of Leda con- cerning the unaccountable disappearance of the child from her protection. I; was almost dark on the street when he reached the millinery, and was shown up to Leda’s apartments; the lamp was lighted in her sitting-room, and she sat by the table, reading. ‘ What has happened?” she exclaimed, the moment she saw Warren’s face. | No wonder; it seemed transfigured, as if his soul were ablaze behind it. | “Faith is found—is safe!” was all he could say for a minute. Well for Leda that he had bent his head over ‘the letter he had taken from his pocket, and therefore did not catch the look of blank dismay that came to her face. He mis- took her silence for a rush of glad emotion akin to that which had stunned him at first. With nervous haste, he proceeded to read aloud from her letter. He was glad to have some other loving heart to throb with his own over the hair-breadth escapes and blood-curdling perils of the child’s desperate adventures. He read rapidly at first, but soon more slowly, as if to take in the full meaning of each word. He did not remember, nor care, that it was Leda who listened; it was a human creature who had known GComicbooks: (E(0)