The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 197: what you’re looking at

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188 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. that. I know she cares little for the man himself, but the obstacles met in the way have aroused all that is stubborn in her nature, and she will fight for him. “Now, my girl, when you isnie upon this gentle- man, Lord Trevellion, you understand that we know | and Robert knows you are not his wife—that the ceremony was a farce, gone parousn with for a pur- pose. “You succeeded in part—Robert made his will in your favor, and bought the deadly drug that was to take his life. “Tsaw you give him that vial on the train, and . convinced him of the deadly character of the ligintd it contained by killing a Maltese cat with it. He emptied the vial in the basin of the lavatory, and his love for you was turned into detestation and horror. “When he was found that way, in the morning, allof you thought he had taken the poison, and rejoiced accordingly. “EHven I was puzzled until his sister Therese, who was aboard the car, in a nun’s attire, fAronmed me that Robert was subject to these cataleptic states resembling death. “We concluded to deceive you, and make you believe he had died, so the article was written up for the papers. “You remember my visit when I saw you before. Sergeant Billings and I had the little matter ar- ranged in order to get the papers for his lordship. That was successful. Then there remained but one thing more, and this was to effect your departure from Ciicnes. “IT came here to see your father, and advanced ‘Eomicbooks CO o<: a> page