To-night she could have
hugged both the old maids. You
two have a good time. ” Lucy coolly marveled as she
studied the girl’s face, belly swollen from pregnancy. Yet an
indiscriminating, wrong-headed world gave such fellows all sorts of
distinctions. Here, where every element of her surroundings was tawdry and
commonplace, and before this young man of vulgar origin and appearance, it
was striking. He saw
three people: a young man at the piano, an elderly man smoking in a corner, and
a young woman reclining in a chair, her eyes closed. "
"Who are you!" demanded the fugitive, sternly. "
"What gives you that idea?"
"Well, we could find no letter of credit, no letters, no labels in his clothes—not a
single clew to his real identity. This
request, however, was refused; and he was told that the only way in which he
could entitle himself to his Majesty's clemency would be by discovering who
had abetted him in his last escape; the strongest suspicions being entertained that
he had not affected it alone. Here was an appalling fact: all her previous loneliness had been
trifling beside that which now encompassed her and would for years to come.
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