Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 199: what you’re looking at

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192 A SEVERE THREAT. wildly, ‘‘and they call me Lola Gordon; but Sir John Sydnev is my father, and—God help me—the murderer of my mother !” ‘‘T believe you,” returned Geraldine, in a calm, resolute tone. ‘‘I could credit azy statement against that man, no matter how fearful. Lola Gordon, do you desire revenge? Sodo I; more—lI have sworn to obtain it. I have uttered threats against Sir John Sydney which I long to carry into execution. Sit down here at my side. Though I am weak, I will strive to be strong, that we may devise some plan of vengeance !” ‘‘ Wait,” said Lola, ‘‘drink your strengthening cordial first, and then you will be more able to talk.” She stepped to a tiny table near, where the medicines were ranged side by side, and as she poured the cordial into a wine- glass, her eyes fell upon a letter which had been carelessly dropped—probably an accident—upon the velvet carpet. Lola administered the cordial, and then deliberately picked up the missive and examined it. She started back with a cry of dismay, as Geraldine stretched forth her hand, and seized the letter. ‘‘Let me see it,” she panted. ‘‘It is Sir John Sydney’s handwriting, and is addressed to my father.” She had it open even while she spoke, and her eyes flew over the contents. Her face, pale before, grew ghastly now, and a look of utter despair came into her great dark eyes. ‘All in vain!” she faltered ; ‘‘all in vain, I have sacrificed myself ; sold my own soul, to save my father from punishment fora crime, which I find now he never committed! And Sir _ John Sydney knew it from first to last. Lola, there is no ven- geance too severe, no punishment too great, for this human fiend! Iam well now; I feel my strength returning—urged on by my desperate need. Plot! plan! do anything, no matter how terrible, so that he is paid back for what he has done ; and I—so help me, Heaven ! will make him suffer for it, though my - own life should pay the forfeit !” : GComichooks.¢co =)