I am glad of it, I like you.
I would give a year of my life to see you safely her husband."
"Many thanks! Pity she is not of the same mind!"
"Girls change.--You never asked her but once. Suppose you try again. You
are young enough and handsome enough to win whomsoever you please."
"You are complimentary. Suppose we leave all that and proceed to
business. Tell me what you know of Miss Dane's abduction."
He seated himself before her and waited, his eyes fixed gravely on her
face.
"To make what I have to say intelligible," said Miriam, "it is necessary
to give you an insight into the mystery of her previous evanishment. She
was tricked away by artifice, carried off and forcibly held a prisoner
by a man whose masked face she never saw."
"Impossible! Mr. Walraven told me, told every one, she was with you."
"Very likely. Also, that I was dying or dead. The one part is as true as
the other. Mollie never was near me. She was forcibly detained by this
unknown man for a fortnight, then brought home. She told me the story,
and also who she suspected that man to be.
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