Vashti's Fate — page 50: what you’re looking at

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—” AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE. 45 ‘““I say, Cousin Margery, it strikes me you are not par- ticularly glad to see me.” ‘““Indeed? Then it strikes you correctly, I intended to send for you in a month or two, I did not want you now, as I wrote.” “‘And why, pray?” said Leon, with cool serenity. ‘“Because I did not. My 1easons are my own, and good ones, as you may find one day to your cost. Whatever put it into your head to come at all, I can’t conceive.” “Can't you give a fellow credit for a little natural affec- tion for his kindred ?” ““Pshaw! Leonidas, don’t pretend you came to see me, when I so plainly gave you to understand that I did not want you. What did you come for,.though? What could induce a gay young fellow like you to leave the town for an old castle of a country house, with no society but two old women, one sick, and the other worse, and a set of youngsters that do nothing but murder time?” ““Very complimentary you are, I must confess. This old castle of a country house strikes me as a very charm- ing place. I have never seen its equal. Besides, I hear you have a ghost here. It would be just like me to come down on a tour of exploration.” A gray pallor swept over Miss Gresham’s face at these last words, ‘Be careful how you explore here, Leon Brownlee !” she cried, with a ring in her voice like the clashing of steel. “‘Let me come upon your foot outside of the daily beaten track at Everleigh, and I will have you put out as quick as I would a blood-hound! Neither kith nor kinship shall save you.” She had risen; her tall form shook like an aspen, and =<» ew! — \s = ; a . _ «.* @&s, Bs ./ aa s ~~ © 7 s a > m | ‘ bl i oh a a_i ad ~ ee et s .. - _* At a . : + ,* _ * ~~. a + : x . a is = 6 — y ~ if . ~ 4 e “ : . ih, > . . - ‘ » al > > - ‘ i ~ - ¢ « . = | -comicbooks (ee)