The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-18

why
"say at 2 o'clock this afternoon at
Eugene's. You know the placer"
IT have lunched there"
Then you shall again today. You
won't disappoint me?"
Il will be there. | -. / shall be
glad to come. Now-please!"
you've promised. Don't forget"
He stepped back and stood in a sort
of dreamy daze, while, with one final
wonderful smile at parting, the girl
assumed control of the machine and
swung it GU from the curb. Maitland
watched it forge slowly up the avenue
and vanish round the T~hirty-sixth
street corner; then turned his face
southwark, signing with WEAKNESS and
discomfort.
At Thirty-fourth street a policeman,
loungfng beneath the corrugated iron
awning of q corner saloon, faced about
with a low whistle, to stare after him.
Maitland experienced a chill sense of
criminal guilt; he was painfully con-
scious of those two shrewd eyes, bor-
ing gimlet-like int his back, overlook
ing no detail of the wreck Of his eve
ming clothes. Inyoluntarily he glanced
down at his legs, and they moved me-
chanically beneath the edge of his over
coat, like twin animated columns of
mud and dust, openly advertising his
m~isadventures. He felt in his soul
that they shrieked aloud, that they
would presently succeed in DINING all
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%populace would come to the windows
to stare in wonder as he passed by.
And inwardly he groaned and quaked.
As for the policeman, after some re-
luctant hesitation, he overcome the in
herent indispositiop to exertion that
effects his kind. and, swinging his
stick, stalked after Maitland.
Happily (and with heartfelt thanks
giving) the young man CHANGED upon
a somnolent inc bedraggled hack, at
rest in the stenciled shadows of the
Third avenue elevated structure. Its
pilot was snoring Justify the sleep of
the belated, on the box. With some
difficulty he was awakened, and Matt
land lodged into the musty, dusty body
of the vehicle, grateful to escape the
unprejudiced stare of the guardian of
the peace, who i'm another moment
would have overtaken him, and, doubt
less, subjected him to embarrassing
inquisition.
As the ancient four-wheeler ratified
noisily owe the cobbles, some of the
shops were taking down their shutters,
the surface ears were beginning to rum
with increasing frequency, and the side.
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lated. Familiar as the sights were, they
We're yet somehow strangely unreal to
the young man. In a night the face of
the world had changed for him; its fea-
lures doomed weirdly blurred and con-
torted through the mystical grey-gold
atmosphere of the land Of Romance.
wherein he really lived and moved and
had his being. The blatant day was al
together preposterous; today was q
dream. something nightmarish: last
night he had been awake. last night for
the first time in twenty-odd years Of
existence he had lived.
He slipped unthinkingly one hand in
to his coat pocket, seeking instinctively
his cigarette case. and his fingers
brushed the coarse-grained surface of a
canvas bag. He jumped as il electric
fled. He had managed altogether to
forget them. yet in his keeping were the
Maitland heirlooms--the swag
and booty. the loot and plumber of the
adventure. And he smiled hap
PLY TO think that his interest in them
was 50 per cent. deprecated in twenty
four hours: now he owned only half.
Suddenly he sat up, with happy eyes
and a glowing face. h had trusted
him :