Coming down the long corridor, straight toward her, she saw Beatrix Dane!
[CHAPTER XIV.]
COMPLICATIONS.
For a moment Serena Lynne stood glaring down upon Beatrix with eyes full of blank astonishment, which Beatrix returned with interest. It was so strange, so sudden, so unexpected, that for the time they could only stand and stare into each other's faces. At last:
"Serena Lynne!"
The name fell from Beatrix's astonished lips like a groan. Serena's pale eyes flashed with the light of a wicked triumph.
"You!" she hissed vengefully. "So you are destined to cross my path wherever I go. How came you here?"
Beatrix's eyes met her wrathful gaze with a glance of cool disdain.