[The Unseen Bridgegroom by May Agnes Fleming]@TWC D-Link bookThe Unseen Bridgegroom CHAPTER VII 2/28
Tell no one.
Carl Walraven will prevent you, if he can.
I say to you, come--come--come. "MIRIAM." If there was one thing on earth that flighty Mollie was really in earnest about, it was in knowing her own history.
Her marriage sunk into insignificance in comparison. She dispatched Lucy at once for the bearer of the note, sent her friends to the right-about, and closeted herself with the young woman--a pale young woman, with dark eyes and an intelligent face. "Who are you ?" abruptly demanded the bride, looking curiously at her. "Sarah Grant," answered the young woman--"a shopgirl." "Who sent you with this note ?" "A woman who lodges in the same house--a tall, gaunt, half-crazed looking creature.
She is dangerously ill." The girl answered straightforwardly, gazing round her the while in open-eyed admiration. "Do you know her name ?" "We call her old Miriam; she refuses to tell her name.
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