At first she could only gaze at it in utter stupefaction.
Then, realizing what it meant, she gave a great cry, pressed the portrait to her lips again and again, and ended all by—woman-like—fainting.
Nick caught her just in time to save the watch from slipping from her grasp. His experience with fainting women was large and varied. The means of resuscitation were near at hand, and he soon had his fair visitor back to consciousness.
Her first question was:[{48}]
“Where did you get it?”
“The watch?”
“Yes, yes!”
“Indirectly from its owner.”
“From—from——”
“From Victor Redway. He is your husband, and the father of the missing child.”