Beadle's Dime Novels No. 3: Myra, the Child of Adoption — page 54: what you’re looking at

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52 MYRA, THE CHILD OF ADOPTION. & CHAPTER IV. Once again they met, And then they saw, each in the other’s heart, And the black falsehood that had sever’d them Rose palpable and hideous to the thought. Hot tears were shed—sad blessings mutely given! They met, and parted—he went to meet his death, And she to weep o’er bitter memories! Zutima made her home in the South, and there also, after years of wandering, came Daniel Clark—weary with excite- ment, and unhappy with a sense of bitter loneliness. In the first moments of his anger against Zulima, he had made }yi- will, giving all his vast possessions to an aged relative, and making the false friends who had caused his misery executors of that will. And this was the deep game for which these men had staked their souls—these possessions and the contre! over them. No matter though the fair wife was crushed to the earth ; no matter though that beautiful child, in all her in- fant unconsciousness, was despoiled of her just inheritance. It was for this they had toiled in darkness; it was for this they had heaped falsehood upon falsehood, wrong upon wrong. But Clark had returned to New Orleans, not to pass a week and away again, as before, but to control his own business— and in New Orleans was Zulima. They might meet, still it was unlikely, for she was proud and sensitive as ever, and lived in the bosom of a new family, and was girded around new and powerful affections. Looking upon Clark as‘a eat = traitor, one who had betrayed her unprotected state, a alike with her reputation and her love, she shrank -== thought of the past. The wrong that she believed to have — been practiced upon her was so terrible, that she shuddered at «> the retrospection.- Without one shadow of hate or hope of 3 revenge, to perpetuate the struggle that had been so heart- i comichooks.com