His Other Wife: A Novel — page 312: what you’re looking at

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304 ARRAIGNED. A little later, when his mother and Miss Draper came in from their walk, they found him asleep, and apparently much exhausted. A cold dew had gathered on his brow, and his respira- tion seemed troubled. Sleep was the best restorative pos- sible, and they left him to waken.of himself. As Miss Draper passed from the library into the hall, she saw that a stranger, a gentleman, stood at the door upon the piazza. She immediately went forward. The gentleman uncovered as he bowed to her, and she saw that he was a man of venerable and dignified appear- ance. ‘*Good-morning, sir. Will you walk in?” she asked, seeing that he still stood beyond the threshold. _ ‘First oblige me, miss, by ascertaining if Mrs. Croft will be pleased to receive Mr. Elmore Craig.” CHAPTER XXXIV, ARRAIGNED. Prepared as the community had been by the newspaper publications, and common gossip, for the impending trial of the well-known attorney, Mathew Croft, on the charge of attempted murder of his wife by poison, it was not EComicbooks:. (E(@)