Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 236: what you’re looking at

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A SEVERE THREAT. 229 “Meaning the arrest of Sir John Sydney?” questioned Ger- aldine. ‘* Meaning the arrest of Sir John Sydney,” he returned. She laughed a low, mirthless laugh. ‘*T will tell you,” she answered. ‘‘I did everything in my power to help Lola! Gave her free access to the rooms where she felt intuitively that she would find the evidence of his guilt ; and she found it, too! Isent then to Waltham for a couple of officers, and had the gentleman taken away. I trust that he will sleep in Waltham jail to-night.” ‘*Girl, you have gone mad !” * He had drawn back a few paces, his face working convulsively with strong emotion ; it had grown deadly white, and a strange, wild gleam came into his keen eyes. He came nearer at last, and laid one hand upon his daughter’s arm. ‘*Geraldine, you are beside yourself.- If you do not soon attempt to control your wicked temper, you shall be placed in close confinement. Do you know that in your present frame of mind, it would be an easy matter to pronounce you insane— and—treat you accordingly ? I begin to think that Sir John is about right, for he thinks that a removal toa private insane asylum would be ‘i ‘Do I understand you, Lionel Vernon, to say that Sir John Sydney contemplates removing me to an insane asylum ?” ‘‘Tt is the proper place for you,” her father returned doggedly ; ‘‘and if he is held a prisoner, the duty will devolve upon me. _I fancy /Aaf will bring you to your senses, my lady.” ‘‘That is not the question, sir,” returned his daughter, frigidly.. ‘‘Iv ask you, Mr. Vernon, once more, does that wretch, Sir John Sydney, threaten to place me in an asylum for the insane? And he knows that Iam not mad !” Lionel Vernon smiled a disagreeable smile. ‘He knows that you are not mad, certainly, only so far as your senseless hatred and persecution of himself is concerned, Eomichooks (ale)