The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 190: what you’re looking at

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THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. isi on her face, as though she feels that she has jus accomplished a great thing. [ have a dim recollection of having read about the old Roman generals coming before Cesar with the enemies they had captured. She does not notice me at first, her eyes having fallen upon the colonel, and she moves toward him, still holding on to her victim. “Father, some one has deceived us—see, here is Robert, my husband, alive and well, only a little confused in hismind. They have put poison into, it, but he knows the truth now. Who could have done this, father?” Her part is well acted, and I hope we are not about to have trouble with Robert. Really, there is no telling what a man will do when thus held under a spell. Andrews has not forgotten me. Even the coming of his accomplished daughter, and the fact that she has again succeeded in roping in her almost lost victim, does not appear to dis- sipate that heavy frown from his face. Turning partly, he stretches out his arm and points directly at me. “There is the man who has undone us, girl,” he utters, in a deep voice. Then for the first time, Evangeline notices me. My presence and peculiarly cool position, with my arms over the back of the chair, strike her with dismay. Perhaps the sight of the weapon which I grasp also tells her that I have been master of the : situation before her corning. | She utters an exclamation. “That man again! We are lost!” At the same time she mechanically releases her GComicbooks: co