Beadle's Dime Novels No. 131 — page 81: what you’re looking at

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THE PROMISED VISIT. 85 father L. What will become of Joe, when he finds that he has lost me ?” “ He shall not lose you, sister. Wewill build bim a new edition of the Jolly Jack, make him comfortable in his old _ days, and come down here every summer, to spend two or three months with him.” “ Shall we tell him, now, what we have discovered ?” “T believe not, until you come back from Mr. Wetmore’s. We may have the means of proving our assertions by that with Kate, for you will have none too much time to pack for the visit, this afternoon, and there is a your little tug going up early in the morning.” ye CHAPTER IX. ACT FOUR. : Wuen Oliver came into Mr. Wetmore’s parlor with Tangee on his arm, Kate turned very pale. For a moment she gazed almost coldly at the beautiful, brilliant face before her, glow- ing with a happy smile. | me _ “Jt is no wonder he loves her,” she thought, 4 spasm of jealousy contracting hep heart; “how gery beautiful she is, and so happy, because she believes he loves her?” while Tan- gee, on her part, was smiling with a consciousness of the joy- ful news in store for this lovely woman who seemed to her so much more stately than herself, and of far superior beauty. Kate’s blue eyes and delicate bloom were like the picture of an angel to Tangee. Ina moment Kate’s constrained manner vanished ; she caught Tangee’s hand and kissed her with tear- ful fondness. “TI don't wonder our Oliver loves you,” she whispered in her guesi’s ear; “ no one could help it, I think.” “ He does have some affection for me,” was the arch reply ; “but he loves blue eyes and golden hair a thousand times mere.” CoOmicooks.conn