Mr. Conway answered the summons.
The scene which followed can better be imagined than described.
It was hard to convince father and daughter, at first, that in telling
his story he was not attempting to play some practical joke upon them.
That he had a cousin who so cleverly resembled him that even those who
had known Lester intimately for long years should be so cleverly
deceived by him seemed almost incredible. Margery hid her face in her
trembling hands while her father gave Lester a full account of what had
transpired, while the latter's emotion was great; and his distress
intense, upon learning that Kendale had dared betroth himself to Margery
in his name, and that the gentle-hearted girl had learned to care for
the scamp, despite her repugnance to him at first.
Lester thought it best, under the circumstances, to confide in full to
Margery and her father concerning his own love affair, lest they might
expect him to carry out the contract his cousin had made in regard to
marrying his old friend's pretty daughter.
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