A moment later an amazed Andrew Stuart looked up to see hisdaughter standing
before him .
Once he said youhad a face like a monkey. And motherwas looking as
if she had been struck in the face.
I dont know what you have heard about the
other side ofit .
ReederAuthor: Edgar WallaceONETHE POETICAL POLICEMANTHE day
Mr. It seemed to her that she had been walking forever .
It seemed that as long
as shekept moving her pain marched with her and she could bear it.
The little
manager listened, pale as death, whilst Burnett told him ofhis discovery. Into
a circle of suspicious men the manager tottered.
Once Jane had thought the rain
andthe wind were friends of hers, but they seemed enemies now. Yet it seemed
toher she ought to have known what was coming. A paragraph on the second page
leaped to her eye. Just that you ran away and were very happy at first. She
hardly movedbut she felt all the time as if she were running . He was probably
dead when he was found, was the police doctorsverdict.
Do you think it any of
your business exactly?
There will be a change, one way or another, to-night.
Jane knew that there werethree tremendously happy people in the room.
There was
a certain wistful helplessness about JohnG. And I couldnt keep accounts
straight ever .
Every effort to restore the unfortunate man to lifeproved
unavailing. And how she hated,yes, positively hated, the man who would buy this
house! Jane welcomed the chance to seeher house again.
He would shut himself
upwith it for days at a time and forget all about me.
It seemed to her that she
had been walking forever .
Im afraid with twowomen on my hands Ill never get my
epic on Methuselahs lifefinished now, Jane.
Iwouldnt have told you if I thought
it would worry you. A moment later an amazed Andrew Stuart looked up to see
hisdaughter standing before him .
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