The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 143: what you’re looking at

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— 134 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. mutter something, but no sound comes forth. The girl, however, gives a low cry, and darting a swift glance in that quarter, I can see that her face has suddenly grown very pale. Conscience is at work— not that such a heartless creature regrets her course through any sorrow for the young man, but because the awful consequences of her crime begin to rise up before her. I feel no sorrow for her. She has taken keen pleasure in making others suffer in the past, and it is only fair that she should be made to feel the torture in turn. “What of Robert Hammond?” he asks. “There is a law in this country that punishes for bigamy. This girl here is still the wife of Lord Arthur Trevellion, yet she has dared marry Robert Hammond.” “Those are wild words—you cannot. prove them,” he declares, hardly knowing what to say. | “They are the truth.” “Well, then she can renounce the affair across the water. You remember that such power is given to her—it is what his relatives have been begging her to do all the while—to declare there was no marriage, as she was already a wife.” , Andrews gets deeper in the mire. “If it becomes a necessity, man, perhaps we can prove that this was the case at the time of the cere- mony with Lord Arthur, and that therefore, it was void—that the incumbrance died later on, and she was free to wed at the time she became Mrs. Ham- mond. How would that strike your bigamy charge?” “Tf you can prove all that, my charge falls to the ground, Qn the other hand it gives her no right to comicbooks.com Ro} ra 2 ce Bens.