The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 189: what you’re looking at

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180 | THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. she gave him little chance to say a word, but speaking rapidly, and lovingly, slowly but surely dragged him into the net once more. I cannot blame Robert. | He is bewildered—the old feelings within him temporarily rise up and crush the new desire for revenge—her voice and touch again bind him hand and foot. Itis like the runaway slave, tracked by the hounds, treed, and led back once more to cap- tivity. The shackles are on his ankles—he has again succumbed to the enemy. When I see him entering with his lovely captor, who will not let him go, Iam compelled to smile. A thought flashes unbidden into my mind. I re- member telling the colonel that Robert’s nature has changed—that he is now a fierce vengeance seeker, bent upon paying back the long score. This, then, is my mad young New Yorker—this desperate fellow, ready to overleap any obstacles in order to have revenge. He comes in with the aspect of a lamb—indeed, in my mind there is something of the whipped-cur look about Robert just now—he hangs his head and-seems to be heartily ashamed. In this fact I take hope that his present infatua- tion is but temporary, and that he can be easily broken of it. 7 Again I say, that while I feel sorry for the young fellow, I hardly blame him. The sudden renewal of his former relations with Evangeline, and above all the fact that she has secured a hold upon him, dims his faculties for the moment. He will see - again as before, I have no doubt. After my one glance at Robert, I turn my whole attention upon the girl. She has entered the room with a proud expression ~ comicbooks.com