The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-04
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''What sort? Sort of "a criminal, : the
Judge smiled. "Thsy all look alike
Still Clara suggested, such aFFnan
could hardly have been ordinary"
I'm the cbain-gang-oh, yes said
Butler with conviction.
"0h! Then the picture wasn't worth
anything"
why, no." Butler admitted slowly,
though, come to think of 1T, It wasn't
the chain-gang either. They were TAX
ing him aboard the ship. The crowd
WAS so thick l hardly saw him, and
onlysgot one shot at him. But the name
Mas!a queer n 1t stuck in my mind"
"But then" Clara insisted. .what
became of him."
"Oh, gave them the Slip the judge
ohuckled. HE always did. Reported
to have changed ships in mid ocean.
Hal, is that another Abottle?"
Harry stretched his hand for it, but
1t stayed SUPERINTENDENT, for an in
slant, 1T seemed as If the whole table
waited expeetant. Had Buffers camera
ought the clear face of Farrell Wand
or only a dim figure? Flora wondered
If that was the question Harry wanted
to ask. He W~anted--and yet he hest
tated, as II he did not quite dare touch
1t. He laughed and filled the glasses.
He had dropped his question, and there
was no one at the table who seemed
ready to put another,
And yet there We're questions there,
in all the eyes; but some impossible
barrier seemed to have come between
these eage people, and what, for in
caleulable reasons, they so much want
eel to nov 1t was not the genial in
difference with which Butler had
dropped the subject for the approach
ing bottle, 1t seemed rather their own
timidity that withheld them from
touching this subject which at every
turn produced upon some one OF the
eager three some fresh startling effect
the others could not understand. They
We're restless, Clara notably, even under
her calm.
Flora knew she was not giving up
the quest of Farrell Wand. but only
setting 1t aside with her ~unfsiling
thrlft, which saved everything. But
why, in this case? And Harry, who
nad beer SO merry via the mystery
at d~inner-why had he suddenly tried
10 suppress her, to want to ignore the
whole business; why had he hesltated
over this question, and finally let II
fah? And why, above all, was Kerr
so brilliantly talking at Ella, in the
same way he had begun at Flora her
selfY Talking at Ella as If he hardly.
saw her, but like some magician fling
Ing out a brilliant train of pyrotechnicr
u nyPhetlze the senses, before he pro-
oeeos with his trick. And the way
Eiia Was looking at hiin-her bewil-
uerso alacrity, the way she was strug-
sHhg "4th what was being so rapidly
siot at h~er-appeared to Flora the pro-
-ioesHe OF her own struggle to under
stand what reality these appearances
around her could possibly shadow.
NeVe before had her sense of stand
ing on the outside edge Of life been
50 strong 1t seemed as though there
we're some large, lmEalpable thing
growing in the midst of them. around
nc eoges OF which they were tiptoeing.
daringly, fesrfully. each one for him
self, But though IL doomed so large
II ielt herself in the very shadow
y - rao her eyes as she would, she
couldn't see 1t.
Oiten enough in the crowds she
".oVeo among She had felt herself
.o"eiy n not wondered at It. But
NV and here, sitting among her close,
ln.lHsa.e circle, her friends and her
toNer' IL seemed like a horrible obsos-
s'on-,yet 1t was true. AS clear as If 1t
nau peen shown her In a revelation
sue sa" herself absolutely alone.
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