Bonny Jean, and A Severe Threat — page 258: what you’re looking at

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= +” ie — , its ate TRS Veagr to aye 4 t\2 . 4 Sar Wy > ne PR Git “ - bs - : . * " “en . ‘ ; ~t : - a? A SEVERE THREAT. f. 951 - one fair morning in early spring-time they stood up in the old ivy-covered church at Waltham, and were made man and wife. After great darkness had come the light of perfect day. When the steamship Cambria sailed for New Orleans, a week later, she bore among her passengers Lloyd Vernon and wife, Halton Dexter and wife, Howard Ashleigh and the wife to whom, after so much suffering and strange trials, he had been at last reunited. There was a certain dashing young officer on board the vessel, who became so alarmingly attentive to Kittie that—I believe the report had some truth in it—that next fall there will be another wedding. ‘‘Let us hope that Kittie will be happy. She has ‘‘ fought ~ the good fight,” and has learned a rare lesson of self-conquest. Howard and Geraldine will not remain long in America ; they will soon return to ‘‘merrie England,” where a new grave has lately been made in the Waltham grave-yard, in which Lionel Vernon, a sorrowing, repentant man, has been laid away out of sight. Old Zingra follows the fortunes of her beloved Lola, who would not part with her old friend—she is more friend than ser- vant—for all the world. | And so we bid them all farewell—these actors in a life drama, whose effects are still felt in the lives of those concerned. [THE END. | (E(o) books co =) a =)