Then the minister said solemnly:
"I pronounce you man and wife!"
[CHAPTER XXX.]
BEFORE THE DAWN.
None could envy Edmund Clarke's feelings as he hastened on his way to find out the fate of the fair girl he believed to be his daughter!
He could not credit the story of her elopement.
Harrowing suspicion pointed to the probability that Roma, having found out the truth about herself, had hurried to Boston to have the real heiress put out of the way.
What more likely than that the wicked girl had intercepted Jesse's letter containing Liane's address and made capital of it to further her own evil ends?