Thrice Wedded, but Only Once a Wife — page 61: what you’re looking at

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$2 THRICE WEDDED. Another instant, and she had vanished from his sight like a ghost. ee loud and deep burst inatorrent from Squire Moul- ton’s foaming lips, as, painfully arising, he made his way from the place. Scarcely had he stepped outside the circle, when a sight met his eyes which cansed him to totter back, half-fainting and gasping OF breath. CHAPTER VIII. ‘LOOK TO IT.” Half cr uclice half lying among the tall grass just out- side the circle of arbor vite, was a large, swarthy-looking man, his eyes and mouth agape with astonishment at the wondrous story he had just heard rehearsed. A close observer might have noticed his paleness and agi- — tation. Evidently something in the tale had moved him — deeply, for great beads of perspiration stood on his forehead, from which his cap was pushed back, and the hand he raised to wipe his brow shook hke a reed. He might have been a fine looking man, for his face was highly intelligent in expression, and his form was. tall, _ straight, and well developed. But clad in his soiled and much-worn garments, with face deeply bronzed, locks un- combed, and beard unshaven, he was but a sorry-looking object. ‘There was a roughness about him, too, and a fierce-— ness in the gaze of his eye as he looked upon the terror- stricken squire, which were enough in themselves, coming as he did unexpectedly upon him, to drive the color from his face and lips. he stranger was the first to recover his self-possession, , and assuming a sneering, half defiant air, while at the same | time he seemed to enjoy Squire Moulton’s fright, said: 7 “Well, squire, I must say she’s a pretty spunky sort of a — woman, that sister of vourn!” 7 : W ho are you—how long have you been here—did you hear ” incoherently gasped the startled villain. “T heard every word!” interrupted his visitor, with an air of triumph. ‘“That answers two of your questions, I be- heve; but the other I do not know as I feel inclined to re- — ply to just at veel, ce ne | comicbooks.com. -_ / f ¢ Spy) j : : MEW A Ly!