The Illegal Marriage — page 21: what you’re looking at

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OOF REI THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. 13 «“She—my boy—she——” A rush of blood choked him for a moment, and Stannard’s eyes followed the gaunt and trembling finger. Miss Morgan had raised her head and was watching intently. “With the utmost difficulty the old man managed ‘to get out the words: “She has been my death.” Stannard could no longer listen to this incoherent talk, for with a wail of despair Miss Morgan fell heavily upon the floor. Springing to assist her, he pushed violently against Doctor Trippe, who had entered the room unheard, and was a silent witness of the scene. Stannard raised the poor girl in his arms and bore her from the room. Leaving her with the house girls to loosen her dress, after seeing that she had revived a little, he returned to find the doctor ex- amining the wounds on Morgan’s chest. <A glance told him that life was extinct. “A bad business,” said Trippe, without raising his head. “Horrible! horrible!” Stannard replied, throwing himself down upon a lounge. A feeling of faintness seemed to come over him, and in a state of semi- consciousness he watched the physician as he probed and measured the wounds, recording the result in his note-book. At length Trippe turned from his work. “A gad case, Stannard,” be said, stroking his long, black beard; “asad case; but I feared it some time ago. 99 “It is, indeed, doctor; but T cannot—I will not be- lieve it.” Trippe turned his eyes down upon him inquiringly. Gomicbooks:¢o im