In Sight of St. Paul's — page 215: what you’re looking at

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210 WOMAN AGAINST WOMAN. “Oh, must! Ha! ha! ha! Nota bit of it!’ Then Beatrice, who had been listening to the con- versation with a longing to relieve the poor girl from the torture she knew she was undergoing, stepped forward. ‘“Come! come!’’? she said to Cynthia. ‘‘You are spoiling everything. Let the girl go!”’ “T won’t!’’ replied the Panther, emphatically. ‘““And,’’ turning upon the assembled company with a flash in her eyes that defied them to question the truth of her words, ‘‘and I'll tell you why! ‘That © pale-faced, innocent, trembling creature,’’ flinging out her arm with a contemptuous gesture toward Aileen, ‘‘stole from me the man I loved, the man who loved me!”’ 3 ‘Oh!’ went up the chorus from the assembled women, in a threatening murmur. In their eyes this was the unforgivable sin. ‘That is not true!’ cried Aileen, understanding what she was accused of and revolted. “Yes, it is!’ asseverated the Panther. ‘‘Was it not through you that he was shot?”’ ‘Indeed, no, no!” “Tsay yes! for it was to spare your sickly blushes that Tom Chichester came between his brother and myself!” The name of Tom restored Aileen to herself and gave her back the courage she so sadly needed. comicbooks (E(0) m