Caught in the Snare — page 162: what you’re looking at

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Neat Morning. 143 “Yes. I went..up to the ball and Miss Edith came with me. She ran forward when she-saw le,” | the man, and calied him Fred, and he gave me this money and told me to go, and as J ran down 0k hill, I heard her say: ‘Oh, Fred, this is very rash!’ and then she went with him into the old. And house.”’ I Father and son gazed into each other's faces, led pale with undefined terror. “Well, what else?” said Nugent, almost giddy with strange apprehension. iss Then I come home,” went on the boy reluc- und tantly; “but I wanted to hear who he was, and ine what he was going to do. So I came back and stood where I could see them without they see- ore ing me. I couldn't see his face ‘cause he had his back turned, but I could hear them talking. | Id He asked her to go with him and marry him, or | li, something, and she said she wouldn't, and e!! then——”. Again the boy paused, and covered 1 his face with a shudder. he “Well,.and then,” said Nugent, in a voice that sounded husky and unnatural. “He got awfully angry, and took out a long tO knife; and I got frightened and ran away,’ said the boy, trembling at the recollection. | n | Nugent paused for a moment to master the TI emotions that threatened to unman him, Then, with an effort at calmness, he said: > oN j Mf * comicb6oks.com