Suspense, Volume 3 (of 3)

HENRY SETON MERRIMAN
AUTHOR OF 'YOUNG MISTLEY,' 'THE PHANTOM FUTURE' ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES VOL. III.
LONDON RICHARD BENTLEY AND SON Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen 1890
Some there are who laugh and sing While compassed round by sorrow; To this ev'ning's gloom they bring The sunshine of to-morrow.
CONTENTS OF VOL. III
CHAPTER

SUSPENSE
Theodore Trist did not attempt to blind himself as to the difficulties attending his strange undertaking, but he was prepared to face them courageously.
'If,' he said to himself, 'I can only find him ... sober ... I will manage the rest.'
Without doubt this silent man was ready to speak at last—to tear aside the veil of reserve, behind which he was wont to take refuge. And this to the eyes of Alice Huston's husband. His was a nature capable of immense self-sacrifice, and to this capability had been added an almost exaggerated sense of discipline. That which he thought right he would probably do—not on the spur of the moment, but with deliberate purpose, and without fear of subsequent regret.