His Other Wife: A Novel — page 169: what you’re looking at

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ee - 4 DUMB SCOUT. 161 he could command, though a keener perception than Dame Warren’s might easily have seen how his tried nerve was aching for the conclusion of the narrative. _ ‘And they came back without finding the child!” cried Warren, huskily, as he rose to his feet, a . baleful gleam flashing out from the empurpled sockets of: his great, star-like eyes, and all his face quivering with an emotion his mother never dreamed of fathoming. The righteous rage of some ‘dauntless but devout crusader blazed over his countenance; and, though he ground his teeth hard together, a sound strangely like a curse broke from his livid lips. 2 He strode past the wonder-struck old woman. The strength of his most robust health seemed suddenly to have leaped into his swelling veins, and fiery resolve to electrify his elastic form, as he stepped onward in the direction of the stables in the rear of the house. The old lady knew him too well to attempt any inter- ference with his humors; but her heart misgave her lest she had committed a serious indiscretion in her hasty dis- closure of the event which so moved her son. ‘¢He will do something now to bring on a relapse! The doctor said he must beso careful and quiet! Oh! why didn’t I hold my tongue about the matter?” | A few moments after, she heard the clatter of hoofs, and saw her son mounted on his black Arabian gelding— the one extravagance of his life—and riding at full speed down the street. ts | Eomicbooks: (Eo)