Chapter15

#Chapter15

/"HUBERT CARES FOR ME NO LONGER,/" SOBBED THE GIRL.

It seemed to Hubert Varrick, as he clasped his arms around Gerelda, that he must be some other person than the man who had once loved this girl to idolatry. Now the clasp of her hand or the touch of her lips did not afford him an extra pulse-glow.

/"Tell me, Hubert,/" she cried, /"that you are as glad to see me as I am to see you./"

/"It is a great surprise to me, Gerelda,/" he answered, huskily, /"so great that I am not quite myself just now. It will take me some little time to collect my scattered senses./"

He led her to the nearest seat.

/"My cousin has told you all that has happened to me from the hour that we parted until now, darling,/" she whispered. /"Now tell me, Hubert, about yourself. Your heart must have almost broken, dear. I was fearful lest you might have pined away and died because of my untimely loss./"