[The Wrong Twin by Harry Leon Wilson]@TWC D-Link book
The Wrong Twin

CHAPTER XIV
5/28

But tell her also that I wish her happiness in her new life.' Madame, he died there, while weeping soldiers clustered about with hats off and heads bowed--died with your name on his pale lips---'My Pearl of great price,' he whispered, and all was over.

I bring you this photograph, which to the last he wore above his heart.

Observe the bullet hole and those dark stains that discolour your proud features." Whereupon Mrs.Lyman Teaford would fall fainting to the floor and never again be the same woman, bearing to her grave a look of unutterable sadness, even amid the splendours of the newly furnished Latimer residence on North Oak Street.
Winona's drama was less depressing.

Possibly Winona at thirty-two had developed a resilience not yet achieved by Wilbur at twenty.

She was not going to die upon a field of battle for any Lyman Teaford.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books