Ruby's Reward — page 313: what you’re looking at

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; Pa ST RRS he might feel that she was somewhat fickle. While | Estelle would believe that she was safely housed at | Redville. | No one would have a suspicion of her fate, at least for some time, and thus this arch villain would have all the opportunity he wished to mature his plans and flee the country, while in the meantime the | very worst might happen to Walter, — But yet, desperate as she felt affairs were for her, she would not give him the satisfaction of glorying in ber suffering. OW hat kind of a placeis this to which you have brought me? she asked, as she calmly untied her hat and laid it upon the table, and then began to un- button her waterproot. Edmund Carpenter regarded her with astonish- ment; she was far more plucky than he had sus- pected. “Well, you take the situation pretty coolly, [ must countess,” be observed. “Why shouldn't 1?’ she questioned, bravely; I have no fear of you, while Tam so confident that you will get your just deserts, that I can afford to be pa- tient for a while.” “Tam afraid your patience will be sore ly tried,” he retorted, savagely. ‘How will you like it not to see your handsome lover again until you tind ‘dies behind | prison bars 1 This was a keen thrust, but she bore it like the | little heroine that she was. | “Tt will got be Waller who will come to such a fate | as that,” she answered, confidently, and with sugses- tive emphasis, while she deliberately drew the glove from her left hand, and turned the sparkling diamond on her third finger to the light. That act enraged Edmund C arpenter more than anything that had oceurred yet, and he sprang to his feet with a muttered imprecation. The sight of that diamond was torture to him. —. “Don't be too sure,” he said, through his tightly. shut est “Your Nein ge may have a severer test than you are prepared for,” cal | “An idéa strikes me,” Ruby said, a LeRUBPeRSTe