He took her in his arms and kissed her. “You’re my sweetheart. I’ll not give you up. Don’t think it.”
He spoke with such strength, such assurance, that she knew he would not yield without a struggle.
“I’ll never be anything to him—never. But he stands between us. Don’t you see he does?”
“No. Your marriage to him is empty words. We’ll have it annulled. It will not stand in any court. I’ve won you and I’m going to keep you. There’s no two ways about that.”
She broke down and began to sob quietly in a heartbroken fashion, while he tried to comfort her. 349 It was not so easy as he thought. So long as MacQueen lived Flatray would walk in danger if she did as he wanted her to do.
Neither of them knew that Bucky O’Connor’s bullet had already annulled the marriage, that happiness was already on the wing to them.
This hour was to be for their grief, the next for their joy.
The End
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