The Illegal Marriage — page 228: what you’re looking at

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220 THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE, “The old villain!” said the doctor, “I knew he was up to some rascality.” Putting the order in his pocket, Doctor Trippe rode to Echaconnee, and laid the case before Alfred’s father. As ill able as he was to pay the money he promised to do so if they would spare his son. Trippe assured him that he need not fear—he would assume Johnson’s share of the present loss, and he and his brother would wait until the money could be paid. Two years passed, Alfred was sent to college, and Trippe settled at Echaconnee. One evening the doctor was sitting at his desk when old Hawks burst into the room, “My daughter! You villain! Where is my daughter?” he shrieked, and, raising a stick in his hand, struck at the doctor’s head. A desperate struggle ensued in which the superb physical strength of Trippe alone saved him from death. Finding that he could accomplish nothing, Hawks grasped a package of papers which were lying on the desk, and ran from the house. Among those papers was the order forged by Alfred Guerry. With the money first obtained he had gone to France, and. followed Stannard to Switzerland, where all trace of him was lost; but one day he heard of Stannard’s private marriage in Geneva, and believed that Adela was his own daughter, For many months he sought this woman, and at last found her in a low cellar in Besancon, and upon her death-bed. Finding that it was not Mary, Hawks was about to leave; but the dying woman detained him, and, telling him Stannard’s story, she placed a packet in his hand. The next day Hawks found himself in a burning fever, and for two weeks was confined to his bed. When he recovered the young woman was dead and buried; and, obtaining a copy of the record, parks placed it with the packet and started for ome. Soon after his return he traced Mary to Macon, (Efe) GComicbooks