The Blockade Runner — page 86: what you’re looking at

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THE BLOCKADE RUNNER. oeree Of course, Norah, I once thought that you were to become my nephews wife, but his treachery has changed all that, and you must look out fora loyal husband. Let me see. You are nineteen, girl; olil enough to choose a husband. Bentham is out of the question. You do not think of him, I hope?” The hand that touched Mowbray’s arm trembled like an aspen leaf, and .all color fled from its fair pus- sessor’s face. “She thinks of him still,” went through Mowbray’s mind. “If I leave everything to her | will have trouble in keeping my promise with Powers. I shait open the home campaign at once, This girl shall un- derstand that I am master here.” | He kept’ his eyes fixed on the girl. “T want you to banish my Hephew from your mind —to tear him from your heart, if he still remains there,” he said, with a Mowbray’s sternness. “ He is going to be hunted like a pirate by the ship I have just sent to sea. Oaptain Powers and I have taken mutua! oaths, which shall be kept. Nay, do not start, Norah. You have lived too long under this roof to know tha‘ I have never broken a promise. Robert Bentham has covered the Mowbray ancestry with infamy. I never thought he’d do this while I encouraged his love- prairie I expected to see him sail intl the stars and bars, and not under the banner of the North. Hic came back to fight against us all—against you and i, girl. My money educated him; it taught him the ar! of gunnery in order that he might sink “our vessels, [ fly into a passion whenever I think of this. I say tha‘ you and I have seen him for the last time. Make up your mind to that, Norah. Dick Powers wil! do his duty !”” Comicdooks (©) =