Excerpt from Did She Love Him? A Novel, Vol. 2 of 3

And now to return to our fugitive.

It seemed all like a troubled dream to Rowland Stanley when, after in hot haste substituting mufti for his uniform, and after, with tremulous hands and throbbing temples, he consulted that mysterious volume Bradshaw, and getting the last train for Southampton, he found himself on board the clippership Queen of Britain, and actually quitting the tidal dock astern of a strong steam-tug, while the hands were aloft getting the canvas loose to make sail on her as soon as she should be out in fair way.

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