“He is fickle and false, my lover whom I trusted in so fondly! How can I bear this pain and live?” she moaned to her stricken heart, in the silence of her terrible despair.
CHAPTER XXXVI.
“NOT TILL LOVE COMES.”
But we must digress a short while from the main points of our story to note what became of our villain, Otho Maury, after Floyd Landon and our heroine left him unconscious on the floor, to recover at his leisure from his long swoon.
Never was a villain assured of success in a nefarious design more cleverly checkmated.
In a few minutes after their departure, Otho revived, and lifted his head in wonder at his position.
A darting pain in his wounded neck recalled him sharply to a sense of all that had happened.
He had gone to Suicide Place to search for Floy, and found her; but she was armed, and had attacked him desperately with a murderous looking dagger.
He had swooned with the pain of the wound she gave him, and knew no more.
How long ago had that been? How long had he been lying here? And where was Floy?