In Sight of St. Paul's — page 33: what you’re looking at

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28 A DANGEROUS BEAUTY. tain Gridston, there happened to be one or two gen- tlemen. This may have been accidental’? (Tom could not refrain from this bit of sarcasm, for he thoroughly disliked and distrusted the man named Gridston) ‘but, nevertheless, it was so. And these gentlemen recognized you and warned me. In justice to you, I kept silence until inquiries had been made, and I received only to-night the confirmation of the worst I have been told.’’ The Panther raised her head. The blow had been a sudden one, but she was not a woman to succumb easily. ‘The color was now stealing back into her cheeks, and in her eyes there was a dangerous elitter. ‘‘And what have you been told, Mr. Chichester ?”’ she asked, with intense bitterness. ‘“That your name is not Mrs. Dell, but Burnsides; that you are not a widow, but the wife of a man who is suffering for a crime committed in order to feed your extravagances. ’’ Every word of this was true, and there was even more that might have been said. Noone knew this better than the Panther herself. But, nevertheless, she started to her feet, exclaiming, boldly, and with well-assumed indignation: ‘“Your charge is an infamous one!’ ‘I regret that it is true,’’ said Tom, quietly. Cynthia gave him one swift look, and then laughed Gomicbooks (E(0)