The ground
trembled. The train was going with fearful rapidity. Another
second and it had reached the bank. Burke the Slogger uttered a
fiendish laugh. But the next moment the train leaped across the
chasm, striking the rails exactly even, and, dashing out the life
of Burke the Slogger, sped away to Sloperton.
The first object that greeted Edgardo, as he rode up to the station
on the arrival of the train, was the body of Burke the Slogger
hanging on the cow-catcher; the second was the face of his deserted
wife looking from the windows of a second-class carriage.
CHAPTER V.
A nameless terror seemed to have taken possession of Clarissa, Lady
Selina's maid, as she rushed into the presence of her mistress.
"O my lady, such news!"
"Explain yourself," said her mistress, rising.
"An accident has happened on the railway, and a man has been
killed."
"What--not Edgardo!" almost screamed Selina.
"No, Burke the Slogger!" your ladyship.
"My first husband!" said Lady Selina, sinking on her knees. "Just
Heaven, I thank thee!"
CHAPTER VI.
The morning of the seventeenth dawned brightly over Sloperton. "A
fine day for the wedding," said the sexton to Swipes, the butler of
Sloperton Grange.
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