The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 120: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. 111 I can see certain emotions chasing each other over his countenance as he gazes at it, and do not wonder. Whether these mean anger or something else, it is hard to say. “Ah! she made a fool of me, and I tell you there are few men who could resist that girl once she exercised her charms. But the spell was broken, and that ends it. Mr. Craig, explain how I can serve you,” says my lord. So I tell him my plan—how I want him to see Robert again and casually mention the trouble he has had on account of a girl in England, whom he married. Then, at the proper moment, he is to pro- duce the picture, and add all the proofs, thus con- vincing Hammond that the Evangeline he believes in is as false as Jezebel. [believe solemnly that such a course will be the only way of effecting a cure with Robert. Generally, when a patient suffers with fever added to some other malady, the physician, before devoting his energies toward curing the ailment, will break the fever. So with Hammond—he must see his folly before we can hope to cure him of the mad disease of the heart from which he suffers. The three gentlemen agree with me that such is: the only true course. .Trevellion asks questions relative to Robert’s present position, and I give him directions by means of which he may find the hos- pital. | “You must be careful, sir. how you show yourself in the dining-room,” I remark. “Is Gwendoline here?” he ners holding his breath | and fbaneing color, * comicboo ‘S €o