Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 192: what you’re looking at

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A SEVERE THREAT 185 Lola could not speak. Such self-abnegation—to risk her own life for the sake of a girl but lately a stranger, touched Lela Gordon inexpressibly. She bent her head, and kissed the white lips of the wounded girl. ‘‘ Heaven bless you, Dot!” she whispered. ‘‘ The devotion of my life will not be enough to repay you.” Lola paused with a cry of alarm, for she saw that Dot had fainted again. With Mrs. Brown’s assistance the poor girl was borne into the house, and placed upon her bed. The physician arrived then, and the ball was, fortunately, soon extracted. He pronounced the wound not necessarily serious, and, leaving — minute directions, took his departure. Then Lola stole away to the room where Lloyd Vernon lay, for she knew that he was fearfully troubled and excited in regard to the mysterious occur-. rence, of which Mrs. Brown had ventured to give him a brief outline. Sitting at the bedside, Lola answered all his questions, ex- plaining the sad affair as concisely as possible, lest she excite him too much. Lloyd listened with eager interest while Lola repeated all that Dot had told her. Presently Bob came into the room, his face pale with sup- pressed excitement, in one hand a glittering object. He held it-up in the light of the Jamp which burned upon the table, his homely features working convulsively. ‘¢See, Miss Lola!” he cried. Lola sprang forward in eager haste, and took the gleaming object in her hand. It wasa gold bracelet, in the form of a serpent, covered with glistening emerald scales, and with two glaring ruby eyes. Lola’s glance, as she lifted her face, asked a fearful question. Bob hastened to answer it. ‘Vou see, Miss Lola,” he explained, ‘‘I caught a glimpse 0’ a dark-lookin’ figger out in the shrubbery ; so I says to my- self, I’ll foller and see who it is; for—no matter what's what— that person ain’t no earthly business here, So, I slipped up, Eomichbooks: co =