Marion Marlowe's Noble Work, or, The Tragedy at the Hospital — page 16: what you’re looking at

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i4 MY QUEEN. Allyn, sternly. “If those three young men and to think, my brother thought himself a who love Marion cannot save her, I shall widower.” 3 be greatly mistaken: besides, if you cry so There were tears running down her face you will not be able to hear what Miss Ray as she paused for a moment. Dollie had for- tells me, and I am sure you wish to know gotten to weep, she avas so interested in the what has happened to your sister!”’ story, | Dollie stifled her sobs, and wiped her eyes. | “It was in London, six weeks ago, that the awiul revelations occurred,” she went on atter a minute. “Archie and I were walking | together on the Strand one day when all of “Dil tell you all I know as quickly as a sudden he gripped my arm and the next possible,” Adele Ray said, brokenly; “and moment he dropped—he had fainted like a Oh, girls, I want your sympathy for my woman. I had only time to see that a young poor, dear brother!” ‘bleached blonde’ was passing us; after that, for an hour, I was busy with my brother. Well, to make this story short, Archie told In a few moments she was quiet and ready to listen. ee EEE CHAPTER VII. me everything. He had to, you see, for the . A BROTHER'S STORY. blonde woman was his wife—he recognized | Adele Ray was as pale as death when she her instantly—she was living!” | spoke again, but her hands were clenched in “How horrible!” cried Miss Allyn, as Miss | a resolute manner. Ray stopped speaking, She had thought — She was a woman of twenty-five, whose Just then of what Dr. Brookes had said and | life had been a sad one, and her handsome was beginning to put “two and two’ to face was marred by lines of grief and bitter- gether. ness. “Oh, and I thought he loved Marion!” In a low, vibrating voice she told her burst out Dollie impetuously. “I was as story, making it as brief as possible so as sure as anything that she would marry him not to distress them. some time.” ) “My dear brother has had a bitter experi- “That is the hardest part of it! He does aed she said, “for, like many a thought- love her,” sighed Miss Ray, “but I was ob- less youth he became enamored with a young — liged to tell her his miserable secret, and it girl while he was a boy at college, and with- is that which has brought her into this awful out any of us knowing it he made her his trouble.” wife. She was a vain, silly creature, who Miss Allyn said nothing, but Dollie cried looked like a big wax doll, and in less than out in astonishment. a year Archie discovered that she was faith- “She has a picture of Archie’s wife that I load He left her at once, but made her a gave her,” explained Miss Ray, “and she generous allowance—he had money of his promised to watch for and to try and save hae and no one asked him to account for it. her. You see, Mary, Archie’s wife has gone (ne more year passed and he heard that the to the bad altogether, and of course we feel cirl was dead—he took pains to prove it and — pretty sure that she will drift to Blackwell's | . | onsidered the reports verified. Meanwhile Island, and in case that happens we thought tot one of his family knew it. When he Marion would see her, and oh, to think that . ~ . eame home from college he was only twenty, the woman should have tricked us. For it Gomicbooks. co