THE
STRAND MAGAZINE
An Illustrated Monthly
Vol. 5, Issue. 26.
February 1893
Contents
A Wedding Gift
Hands
Quastana, The Brigand
Zig-zag At The Zoo: Phocine
The Major's Commission.
Peculiar Playing Cards II.
Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes XV.--The Adventure of the Yellow Face
Illustrated Interviews: XX.--Dr. Barnado
Beauties:—Children.
Shafts from an Eastern Quiver VIII.--The Masked Ruler of the Black Wreckers
From Behind the Speaker's Chair II.
A Slave
The Queer Side of Things.
"Kenneth Threw Himself Suddenly Upon Phillip."(A Wedding Gift.)
(A Wife's Story.)
By Leonard Outram.
"I will have you! I will have you! I will! I will! I will!!" I cansee his dark face now as he spoke those words.
I remember noticing how pale his lips were as he hissed out through hisclenched teeth: "Though I had to fight with a hundred men foryou—though I had to do murder for your sake, you should be mine. Inspite of your love for him, in spite of your hate for me, in spite ofall your struggles, your tears, your prayers, you shall be mine, mine,only mine!"
I had known Kenneth Moore ever since I was a little child. He had madelove to me nearly as long. People spoke of us as sweethearts, andKenneth was so confident and persevering that when my mother died and Ifound myself without a relative, without a single friend that I reallycared for, I did promise him that I would one day be his wife. But thathad scarcely happened, when Phillip Rutley came to the village and—andeverybody knows I fell in love with him.
It seemed like Providence that brought Phillip to me just as I had givena half-consent to marry a man I had no love for, and with whom I couldnever have been happy.
I had parted from Kenneth at the front gate, and he had gone off to hishome crazy with delight because at last I had given wa