Vashti's Fate — page 240: what you’re looking at

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* ak Be ge Sa REVELATIONS—DESPATR. 235 room together ; Philip followed them, with his son Hu- bert. [hat peculiar summons upon the bell had been for him. Margery Gresham just lifted her eyes from the paper in her hand to scan the excited and evidently anxious group. ~ “Nora is not here,” she said. ‘‘ Hubert, go for her.” The young man left the room without a word. ‘* Philip,” she continued, in the same stern voice, ‘‘ go and bring hither the keys of the Hermitage.” | A wild cry broke from Vashtt’s lips, ‘““Don’t take me there! Oh, don’t take me there!” She clung frantically to her brother, screaming : ‘Save me! save me! save me, Frank! Don't take me there! [will be calm! Iwill, I will * Miss Gresham compressed her lips, without uttering a word. Francis Everleigh seemed suddenly stricken with the palsy. His knees shook under him, his face grew deathly white, and he staggered to a chair, unable to utter a syllable, or even support his sister. Thorpe threw -his strong arms about her, and _ held her, while he looked into her face with his strong eyes, and said : ‘“Nothing shall harm you, Vashti; nothing shall take you from my arm against your will. My darling, what is — it you fear?” — She clung to him, sobbing hysterically. ‘‘Don't let them come near me. Philip is coming back —there, there—murder—m-u-r-d-e-r |" | The servants were thronging in the hall. ‘The screams of the terrified girl struck cold chills to the hearts of all who heard, and from lip to lip passed a terrible thought—a whispered sentence : ‘«She is going mad !” comicbooks CO m1