Adah, I almost hate her for having crossed my path." There was a fearfully vindictive gleam in the bright eyes now, and the doctor shudderingly looked away, while 'Lina, with a soft tone, continued: "You believed me rich, and whether you loved me afterward or not, you sought me first for my money.

I kept up the delusion, for in no other way could I have won you.

Dr.Richards, if I die, as perhaps I may, I shall have one less sin for which to atone, if I confess to you that instead of the heiress you imagined me to be, I had scarcely money enough to pay my board at that hotel.

Hugh, who himself is poor, furnished what means I had, and most of my jewelry was borrowed.

Do you hear that?
Do you know what you have escaped ?" She almost shrieked at the last.
"Go," she continued, "find your Adah.