Long ago. ‘How did you know that Mary was
his daughter?’
Gerald hesitated. Anna was more difficult. I was sure
you could not have the heart to slay a child—an innocent child. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. Blest with a fond
husband, surrounded by every comfort, you have never been assailed by the
horrible temptations to which misery has exposed me. It hit her just above the knee. Or else—Else it will be impossible that I can be his
friend.
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