This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... few days. Before she had time to make any reply the door opened and a servant entered hastily and with looks of alarm. VOL. IIL "Miss Doretta, sir!" she exclaimed. "Yes: what of her?" "She is gone." A search of the house and grounds confirmed the strange intelligence. Doretta Horlock was not to be found. III. Not to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882 Excerpt: ... few days. Before she had time to make any reply the door opened and a servant entered hastily and with looks of alarm. VOL. IIL "Miss Doretta, sir!" she exclaimed. "Yes: what of her?" "She is gone." A search of the house and grounds confirmed the strange intelligence. Doretta Horlock was not to be found. III. Not to be found. Days melted into weeks, and still that was the report. There were no signs of the missing one. Inquiry showed that she must have passed out of the house and grounds unobserved, and thus disappeared into the world. No one had seen her go. No villager had met her. There was no reason to suppose that she had taken any vehicle so as to travel a distance: on the other hand, only the absence of evidence of that sort justified the conclusion that she remained in the neighbourhood. Isabel alone had any clue to the cause of this mystery. She alone knew what had passed in the park, having so obvious a relation to what subsequently happened; but she held her peace and kept her own counsel. A burning sense of wrong caleined the natural affections of her heart. She cared not what had become of Doretta, whether she was alive or dead, so long as she was removed from her path, and ceased to be a rival in the affections of the man she loved. Was this monstrous? Truly yes. Was it a solitary instance of a devouring passion swallowing up all meaner things? Unfortunately no. Indifference to the poor girl's fate did not, however, involve lack of curiosity respecting it. Isabel would have been glad to learn that about which she hardly cared to inquire: to know for certain the fate of one who had become indifferent to her. As time elapsed a vague ghostly fear began to shape itself into something tangible. People asked one of ano...
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