Her Faithful Knight — page 207: what you’re looking at

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~The Honeymoon Journey. 203 Exhaustion was merged at length in sleep, broken only by fitful moments of waking when the train stopped at in- tervening stations on the way to London, and before the great city was awake, after waiting for more than an hour at Paddington station, lest she should startle the little household at Lockhart Cottages by a too early arrival, Dorothy made her way toward home. So passed the wedding night of the Hon. Mrs. Darcy Derrick. And how her bridegroom passed his, Dorothy learned four days later, when in a London daily paper her eyes fell on the following item under the heading: A MiIsstnc Bribe. A mysterious affair is reported from Liskeard. A gamekeeper in the employ of Lord Trevorlyn in the early morning of Thursday had his attention drawn by his dog to the body of a well-dressed man lying under a hedge at the base of the railway embankment. On examination, the gamekeeper discovered that the man was not dead or even seriously injured, but only a good deal bruised and shaken, having lain there in a stunned condition for fully twelve hours. On being assisted to a house and attended by a doctor, the extraordinary fact was elicited that the gentleman, who is stated to be of high social position, but who is desirous of having his name kept out of the affair, was on his honeymoon journey to Penzance when, just as the train slowed down before Liskeard, a quarrel arose between him and his newly-married bride, who, in a fit of violent jealousy, endeavored to throw herself out of the train. In trying to stop her, her husband missed his footing and fell, stunning himself with coming in contact with a stone in the steep descent. The strangest part of the occurrence is that the bride has disappeared, leaving no trace. It is, however, supposed that she has returned to her friends, who will, no doubt, persuade her to go EComicsoo ‘S ((0)