Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-17
CHAPTER VII

SPECIAL
CHAPTER XIII.
The next fortnight saw an important
change i'll Toms life. He left the Uni.
versity building and took a cheaper
suite of rooms on Irving place, one OF
the bivouacs of Bohemia. Delatolc and
he had parted in a silence that was sui
try.
His plunges in Wall street kept him
well supplied with money for the time
being, and of the future he thought bat
little
The secret had changed its aspect. He
no longer cared to face it. 1t was now
a monstrous fear maddening him with
whispers of a hundred possibilities, prod
ding him. sending out false alarms and
/ slowly chilling his assurance into an
ever present premouition. Since the day
Felix Dawson left him with the declara-
ton, oh, yes, I'll have it back" he had
not seen nor heard of him. This abso-
lutte withdrawal was more significant
than threats. Suppose he had incon-
testable proof, after all? What if he
lied when he said he had no copy? What
if he could produce witnesses to prove
he had written the play? Would this
man some day appear again, relentless
in his quiet way, and hurl the bomb
shell that would bring his false life in
ruins about his ears:
His rupture with Delatole-that, too,
made him uneasy. Oh. it was a load
from his heart to have told him the truth.
to have seen the sullen surprise deepen
into Il stolid hatred in his horrid eyes. 1t
was Il relief. a balm. but it brought "A
danger in its wake. Suppose they met.
these two who for different reasons
would rejoice in his overthrow. Then
indeed might he shudder. - elatole would
follow the scent insatia He would
come like a vulture to pick his bones.
Even if proof We're not possible he would
so damn him with suspicion, so besmear
him with the trail Of his innuendoes, so
riddle him with the darts of his acrid
humor, his prestige would be lost for
ever Delatole had the power. the OPP
portunity and the answering patience
to write an enemy down and ont of ex-
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terrible-a voice that spoke to him as nc
living voice could. Mystic and person
al, it came from his soul. Conscience,
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ms neal /
ms was ION me now ana across
TINS waste IKE lale ray lrehollh5
from pure open SKIES came longing
persistent us d IhiIa'' 10 see ES!ula'
lie could not account lor IT, II was
not That he fancled ther inendshlQ
might pe III any degree renewed indeed
he never seemed farther from her than
at TINS period, never more undeSerNlns
OF glance from her eyes. But the de-
sire was there, not lorclble enough TO
send MN SEEKING her yet WIN nm al
ways. While fearing, half expecting to
come face 10 lace with Dawson he was
unconsclousiy looking Tor her on the
streets, III shops and at the theater
Two years bad passed, and he had new
sr CHANGED upon her. Such "A thing could
orJy be possible III city IKE New 0rk,
wnere interests lie so widely apart and
life rushes III great circles, one within
another, never meeting. Virginia was
scarcely mile from him, vet Hot seek
:2g each Other they could not have been
more separate had they lived III different
towns. Bohemia and Chelsea square are
antlthelc-the one all fever, struggle
laughter frallty, the other somnolent IL
an odor of sanctity ruffied only by trem
ulous chimes rs the days walk demureiy
on.
Yet, so strange Is the affinity between
thought and sequence, Tom felt scarcely
any surprise When one night at the thea
ter he htted ms languid eyes and sa"
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