The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-05

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slightly giddy. Despite Anisty's sup
porting arm, she reeled back against
theswall Of the cage. closing her eyes.
The nan observed this with covert sat
isfaction.
As the speed decreased she began to
feel slightly stronger and again opened
her eyes. The fioor numbers, black up
on a white ground, were steadily slip
ping down; the first she recognized be
ing 10. The pace was sensibly de-
creased. Then, with a slight jar, the
elevator stopped at %.
"Yous know the way?"
Perfectly" replied Anisty. Two
flights up-in the tower
Right. When you wants me. ring"
The car dropped like a plummet,
leaving them in darkness-or rather in
a thick gloom, but Slightly moderated
by the moonlight streaming in at win
dows at either end of the corridor. An.
isty gripped the girl more roughly.
Nov, my lady: No shennanigan,"
A futile, superf1uous reminder. Tenn
porarily, at least, she was become as
wax in his hands. So complex had
been the days emotions. so severe her
nervous tension, SO heavy the tax upon
her stamina, that she had lapsed int a
state of subjective consciousness, in
which she responded without purpose,
almost dreamily, to the suggestions of
the stronger will.
YEARLY she stumbled up the two
brief flights of stairs leading to the
tower-like cupola of the s~ky-scrape-:
two floors superimposed upon h roof
with scant excuse save that Of giving
the building the distinction Of being the
loftiest in tina section of the city
certainly not to lend any finishing touch
of architectural beauty to the edifice.-
On the top landing a door con-
fronted them, its glass panel shining
dimIy in IL darkness. Anisty
paused, unceremoniously thrustins
the girl to one side, and away
from the head of the staircase; and
fumbled in a pocket, presently produc-
ing a jingling bunch of keys. For a
moment or two she heard him working
at the lock and muttering In an un-
dertone-probably sw~earing-and then,
with a click, the door swung open.
The man thrust a hand inside, touched
an electric switch, flooding the room
with light, and motioned the girl to en-
ter. She obeyed passiyely, thoroughly
subjugated, and found herself in a large
and Furnished office, apparently
the outer of two rooms. h glare of
electric light at first partly blinded
her, and she halted instinctively a few
steps from the door, waiting for her
eyes to become accustomed to the
change.
Behind her the door was closed soft
W; and there followed a thud as q bolt
was shot An instant later Anisty
caught her by the arm and, roughly
now and without wasting speech, hur-
ried her into the next room. Then, re-
leasing her. he turned up h lights
and. passing to the windows, threw
two or three of them wids, for the air
in the room was stale and lifeless.
And now said the criminal in a
lone of satisfaction, now We can talk
business, my dear"
He removed his overcoat and hat,
throwing them oysr the back OF a con-
venient chair, drew his fingers thought
fully across his chin, and, standing at
a little distance, regarded the girl with
a shadow of a saturnine smile soften
ing the hard line of his lips.
She stood where he had left her, as
if volition was no longer hers. Her
arms hung slack at her sides and she
was swaying a trife. her face vacant.
eyes blank; very near the breaking
point.
The man was not without perception;
and recognized her s~tate-one in which,
he felt assured, he could get very little
out OF her. She must be strengthened
and revived before she would or could