The Illegal Marriage — page 93: what you’re looking at

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THE ILLEGAL MARRIAGE. 85 Such a thought had never entered Stannard’s head. On the contrary, he really envied Guerry, and would have given all that he had to have stood as Guerry did with Miss Morgan; but the young man had lost already the finer feelnigs of a gentle- man, and had come to think, like too many poor young men, that any attempt to do him a favor was for the purpose of having a triumph over him,.or for some personal end. What Colonel Stannard could gain by lending him money was not quite clear even to him; but it is easy to believe what one wishes very much to believe, and he fancied that the conclusion was evident—Stannard must have some personal motive. One thing Guerry could not deny—that he felt a erowing dislike to Stannard since this favor had been done. Stooping for the check, Guerry thought for the first time of the use to which he must put it, and he cursed old Hawks for the necessity. The time was near by when Hawks would come for the money, and to prevent another visit at his office, Guerry determined to take the money down to Echaconnee. Where old Hawks was to be found was a question that he could not answer. Common report located him in the Echaconnee swamp; but, so far as known. no man had yet seen his home. Still another reason led the young man to visit the settlement. For more than a week he had re- ceived no letter from Cecy, and the reports that he had from her were anything but satisfactory. So he resolved to go home for a week, and see her in the meantime. He could not lose her now—to do so was ruin, ruin forever. The day upon which Hawks was to visit him Eomicboo S) (Efe)