The Illegal Marriage — page 65: what you’re looking at

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THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. 57 haps you are right. Men and women are different about such things. I will’see him now.” Old Morgan was still raving when Trippe entered his room, and began at once to curse the Guerrys. In vain the doctor tried to calm him. “Tl see it all now,” he thought, “she has met Alf Guerry. I hope she’ll not marry that puppy—he can’t raise a beard,” and Trippe stroked the luxu- riant growth upon his own bronzed face com- placently, as he listened to Morgan’s story. It took not long to glean the facts from Morgan’s disconnected words, and he saw that what he feared had come, and that Morgan’s mind was now be- yond control. Still there seemed to be a method in his madness, and the doctor resolved to wait a few days before taking the responsibility of sending him to the asylum, to see if the mania would not pass away. At least he determined not to delay matters so long as Morgan did not appear vicious; and he now had another reason for wishing Morgan at home provided he could be safely kept there. He was shocked to think that this elegant girl was about to throw herself away upon one whom he considered a worthless, if not a dissolute man, and he wished to gain some time in which he hoped that Alf: Guerry would show his true colors. Keeling sure that Miss Morgan’s wealth was all that he sought, Trippe wished to save her, and determined to consult at Stannard about it, on his way home. Busily engaged in revolving this matter in his mind, Trippe had reined in his horse, but on reaching the bottom by the swamp let him out ina gallop. At that instant he felt a scratch across his breast, GEomicbooks (Eo)