Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 225: what you’re looking at

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~~ 218 A SEVERE THREAT. And he unfolded a newspaper, which all this time he had held in his hand, and pointed to a certain paragraph. Geraldine read it carefully; read it twice over, her breath leaving her, her eyes wild with horror and despair, her heart beating so faintly and low in her breast, that it almost ceased. For this was what the fatal paper said : ‘¢ MARRIED, in New Orleans, La., U. S. A., on the 22d ult., Howard Ashleigh, Esq., of U. S. Engineer Corps, to Miss Katharine Dexter, of New Orleans.”’ Clutching the paper in her cold, trembling hands, Ger- aldine fell to the floor, white and unconscious. Hope had indeed died in her breast, and the sun of happiness had set. Yet she dreamed not of the awful, horrible future in store for her, before which all other horrors paled and vanished. But she was destined saon to know, and before another moon should wane, she would stand face to face with the tragedy of her life, CHAPTER XXV. DESTINY. Slowly the vessel approached, looming up like a weird phan- tom through the night and gloom; and it did not take long to get Kittie and her companion safely on board. The poor girl was wrapped in rugs and overcoats, and furnished with a comfortable seat in a sheltered corner, while Howard, inwardly chafing, stalked up and down the deck in no enviable frame of mind. He was bound—in honor bound—-to a woman whom, notwithstanding her sweetness, her purity and womanly qualities, he did not love, The night was so dark and the wind so strong, that the little vessel cast anchor to await the coming of morning; but when the first faint streaks of red began to appear in the eastern. Gomicbooks:co