His Other Wife: A Novel — page 167: what you’re looking at

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A DUMB SCOUT. 159 CHAPTER XVI. A DUMB SCOUT. It was midnight when the excursionists reached the city, where they found many persons, friends and relatives, collected on the wharves, in anxious speculation as to the cause of their unwonted delay. The news of the day’s disaster was rapidly circulated through the community, and, at an early hour of the following morning, exploring parties had set out to con- tinue the search after Julian Vernois and the unhappy young girl, whose beauty and innocence had al-eady endeared her to many hearts. There were doubtful looks and ‘atk forebodings of evil exchanged between some of the elder and wiser folks, to whom the reckless character and unscrupulous career of Julian Vernois were no secrets. But Faith’s enchanting candor and purity seemed, in the minds of all alike, to defy the idea that.she could knowingly or willingly have surrendered herself to the machinations of a man like Vernois. Therefore the universal fear pointed to a fatal catastrophe as the only probable conclusion. Abeut noon the rumors of what had happened, and GComicbooks: (E(e)