The Octoroon had fainted from the excitement of the moment, but the cool breeze from the river quickly restored her to consciousness.
When she re-opened her eyes she found herself reclining on the shoulder of the man who had seized her.
That man was her father, Gerald Leslie.
CHAPTER XXIX.
THE MEETING OF THE LOVERS.
The two men whom Pauline Corsi had met on her way from the house of Silas Craig to the Villa Moraquitos are not entirely strangers to us.
We saw them last in the solitude of California, living a life of labor, far from all civilized society.
They only reached New Orleans upon the evening after the slave auction, and when Pauline Corsi met them they were in search of an hotel where they could spend the night.
In outward appearance they were very much altered from the day when we last beheld them.
Their rough garments were exchanged for the fashionable attire of gentlemen, and their bearing harmonized well with the change in their costume.