Bertha and Her Baptism
BERTHA AND HER BAPTISM. By the Author of AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY; _or_, BEREAVED PARENTS INSTRUCTED AND COMFORTED. BOSTON: S.K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY, 161 WASHINGTON STREET. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by S.K. WHIPPLE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
Mademoiselle inquired of the clerk for Monsieur Covington.
Yes, Monsieur Covington had reached the hotel some fifteen minutes
before. But he was ill. He had met with an accident. Already a
surgeon was with him.
"He--he is not badly injured?" inquired Marjory.
"I do not know," answered the clerk. "He was carried to his room in a
faint. He was very white."
"I will wait in the writing-room. When the surgeon comes down I wish
to see him. At once--do you understand?"
"Yes, mademoiselle."
Marie suspected what had happened. Monsieur Covington, too, had
presented the driver with a louis d'or, and--miracles do not occur
twice in one day.
Marjory seated herself by a desk, where she had a full view of the
office--of all who came in and all who went out. That she was here
doing this and that Monte Covington was upstairs wounded by a pistol
shot was confusing, considering the fact that as short a time ago as
yesterday evening she had not been conscious of the existence in Paris
of either this hotel or of Monsieur Covington. Of the man who, on the
BERTHA AND HER BAPTISM. By the Author of AGNES AND THE LITTLE KEY; _or_, BEREAVED PARENTS INSTRUCTED AND COMFORTED. BOSTON: S.K. WHIPPLE AND COMPANY, 161 WASHINGTON STREET. 1857. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by S.K. WHIPPLE & CO., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.