Kathleen hesitated, her heart throbbing wildly with the blended love and hate she now felt for the handsome lover who had so wickedly deceived and betrayed her girlish trust.
Then a sudden temptation came to her to stab his heart as cruelly as he had done hers. Why not go with Teddy, who loved her so dearly, and pretend to return his devotion?
"I should be delighted to go!" she said, unfalteringly to Mrs. Stone.
[CHAPTER XXXIV.]
ALPINE SOWS THE SEED OF JEALOUSY.
They have told you some false story;
You believe them—all they say.
You are false, but I'll forgive you;
But forget I never may.
Song.
"You startle me! Kathleen really alive? Kathleen here, in the same city with us?" exclaimed Alpine Belmont, in genuine surprise.
Ralph Chainey had been telling her all about his visit to Mrs. Stone and his unexpected rencontre with his lost love.
"Some one has been slandering me to her, and she hates me now. She refused to have anything more to do with me," he ended, with a long sigh.