The Vestibule Limited Mystery — page 201: what you’re looking at

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192 THE VESTIBULE LIMITED MYSTERY. sister’s love against the fascination of this charmer! “You surely are not simple enough to believe Robert would accompany you after learning of all your baseness—that you are really the wife of another until the courts annul the marriage, and that you have pretended to love him in order to get his money?” I cry out, in something of a fury. “He does not believe you—he knows I love him— we can be married as soon as Lord Arthur secures his divorce,” she pants. I see her dart at Robert’s other hand. | “Say you will go with me, Robert, darling!” she cries in a beseeching tone, and he gives her a be- » wildered look. “Robert, brother, remember our mother and the honor of our name,” pleads Therese, and he turns to look into her calm eyes, now full of unshed tears. Between the two, what will he do? I hold my breath. Silence reigns in the room—a pin dropping could be heard to fall. Then I hear a low gasp of bitter nikapaoilunant as Robert flings the hand of the siren from him, and turning, wraps his sister in his embrace. The tempter has been beaten, thank Heaven, and the young man’s future is safe. Evangeline covers her face with her hands, and sinking into a chair, weeps bitterly. Knowing the tremendous power of a pretty woman’s tears, and fearing lest Robert yet repent of his manly decision, I make a signal to Acton, who manages to get brother and sister out of the room. He soon returns. We have further talk with those against whom comicbooks co