"When a woman has a powerful will, there is scarcely anything she cannot accomplish. When last we met, Paul Lisimon, I made you a proposal, which you rejected with scorn. In spite of my anger I honored you for that rejection; I am now about to avenge myself."
"How, mademoiselle?"
"I no longer address you as Paul Lisimon; that name is in itself a lie; Paul Crivelli, read this document; it is the genuine will of your father, Don Tomaso."
As she spoke, she placed the parchment which had been sent her by Silas Craig, in the hands of the bewildered young man.
This brief dialogue had been spoken in so low a tone as to escape the ears of the two visitors standing by the chimney-piece. It was only overheard by Armand Tremlay, to whom the entire conversation was unintelligible.
At this moment a young mulattress entered the room, and announced "Captain Prendergills."
CHAPTER XXX.
THE SUPPRESSED DOCUMENT.
Augustus Horton left the plantation at daybreak on the morning after the scene between himself and Cora Leslie.
He knew that he had the law on his side, and that Gilbert Margrave might be made to pay dearly for his abduction of the Octoroon.