In Sight of St. Paul's — page 152: what you’re looking at

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A SHOT IN THE DARK. > 147 At this, which was certainly plain speaking, the Panther’s breast was filled with a mad, unreasoning rage. With asudden wild impulse she thrust the pistol she had taken from Tom, and which she had hidden in the bosom of her dress, into Gridston’s hand. : “If you have a spark of courage,”’ she said, in a furious whisper, ‘‘rid us of that man.”’ Gridston mechanically took the weapon. ‘Pm waiting,’’ came Tom’s voice from below, after a pause. ‘*Will you come home??”’ ‘No! no! no!’’ retorted his brother, defiantly, all his obstinacy, which was his dominating fault, rising in its full strength. ‘‘This lady you malign I’d make my wife to-morrow if she’d marry me. She’s as good and better than many others. Even that Aileen, who iy But he was destined never to finish the sentence. Stung beyond all endurance, Tom advanced upon him threateningly. ‘Recall those words,’’ he thundered, ‘‘or——’”’ Without warning, Harry raised the walking-stick he carried and struck at his brother. At the same moment Gridston leveled the pistol and fired. ‘Then, without waiting to see the result of - his shot, he flung the weapon over the balcony, and, accompanied by Cynthia, disappeared within the house. Gomicbooks (E(0)