He even made a definite wager with his
wife that the two would become acquainted before they were half-way
across the Atlantic, and he made a bet with himself that nature would
do the rest. And now here came the staggering suspicion that
Scoville's hasty departure was the result of a pre-arranged plan
between him and Maud, and that, after all, the silly girl might spoil
everything by marrying the confounded rascal before he could do
anything to prevent the catastrophe.
He even tried to engineer a scheme whereby young Scoville might be
arrested on landing and detained on one pretext or another until he
could reach Europe and put an end to the fellow's vain-glorious
conniving.
But after consulting with his lawyers he abandoned the plan because
they succeeded in proving to him that Maud certainly would marry the
fellow if she had the least ground for believing that he was being
oppressed on her account. The cables were kept very busy, however,
for the next twenty-four hours, and it is certain that Scoville was a
marked man from the moment he landed.
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