moments she had never uttered a word. She kept her vow, and Captain Frazier was beside himself at the turn affairs had taken.
But what else could he have done, under the circumstances? He could not stand by and see her made the bride of another.
Only that day, by the merest chance, Frazier had found out about Hubert Varrick practically adopting the village beauty—saucy little Jessie Bain—and that he had secretly sent her to a private school, to be educated at his own expense, and he lost no time in communicating this startling news to Gerelda, and giving her proof positive of the truth of this statement.
He saw her face turn deathly white, and he knew that the arrow of bitter jealousy had struck home; but even then she uttered no word. But when darkness gathered she stole out into the g
