This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...still vacant, as it has been for some time past. My brother lived here." The likeness was explained simply enough. And when you came to see him closely the bridegroom's brother was not so vividly like him as first Edna, and then Delight, had thought in the deceptive shadows and moonlight. He was darker, and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ...still vacant, as it has been for some time past. My brother lived here." The likeness was explained simply enough. And when you came to see him closely the bridegroom's brother was not so vividly like him as first Edna, and then Delight, had thought in the deceptive shadows and moonlight. He was darker, and his face was, perhaps, less regularly handsome, but stronger. " Oh, I'm so glad you're real! " Edna said. " You know, I had what, I thought, was your photograph framed on my wall. And I thought--oh, I thought you were haunting me, because you were angry! " " That doesn't sound like the sort of thing I ought to be angry about," he answered, falling into step with her. " Won't you come up to the house and meet Mrs. Leroy? I know she's up yet," Edna went on, while Delight looked surprised. She didn't think Edna had any business doing that sort of thing. " Why--if you don't think it's too unearthly an hour, Miss Lanier," he answered. " I would like to see the house again. I was very fond of my brother." Delight could not help a half-suppressed smile. The stranger's unconscious rebuke was so neat. Julian colored up a little, but it passed over Edna's head. "Oh, I'm not Miss Lanier. I'm Edna Morse." At this the ex-mysterious stranger said in effect that his mother was waiting up, and perhaps he'd better go home now. Whereat Delight and Julian closed around him and dragged him to the house. Mrs. Leroy was up, as they had known she would be--she was a night-owl by preference. And she was as cordial as they had likewise known she would be. His name was Stevenson. He was older than any of the rest of them--about thirty--very quiet, very gentle, very much at ease--and before he had ended his brief midnight call every one of the household had gone down...
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