"If Mollie Dane is really in danger, then I must know, and aid
her. No one has a better right, for no one on earth loves her as well as
I do."
"Ha!" exclaimed Miriam, stopping short. "We have it at last, have we? You
love her, then?"
"With all my heart, and mind, and strength; as I never have loved, and
never will love, any other earthly creature. Now, then, sit down here
and tell me, from first to last, what you came here to tell."
He wheeled forward a chair, took the woman by both shoulders, and
compelled her to be seated. His face was very pale, his eyes alight, his
statuesque mouth stern, and set, and powerful.
Miriam looked at him with dawning admiration and respect. The man that
makes them obey is the man women are pretty safe to adore.
"Now, then," he said--"now, Madame Miriam, I want you to begin at the
beginning and tell me all. If Mollie Dane is above ground, I will find
her."
The woman looked up in his handsome face, locked in grim, inflexible
resolution--an iron face now--and relaxed.
"Mollie was not deceived in you, after all.
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