A Daughter of Delilah — page 159: what you’re looking at

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150 _ EDWARD HAWLEY’S TROUBLE. CHAPTER XITI. EDWARD HAWLEY’S TROUBLE. It was true that Edward Hawley, the scene-painter at the Frivolity Theater, had been arrested on suspicion of having caused the death of the manager by shooting him with a revolver. | No one was more surprised than Hawley himself. The police waited upon him at home at anearly hour, and it was with the greatest difficulty that he kept the awful news from his mother. ‘It is outrageous!’ he said, indignantly. ‘‘Poor Stim- son! I did not even know that he was dead. I left him at three o’clock yesterday afternoon, and have not been to the theater since.’’ There were two officers, and the spokesman interjected: “You quarreled with him?” | ‘““Yes. Iadmitthat. I have neglected my work lately, — and he fancied that my time was being spent in the pursuit of a worthless woman. It did not suit me to contradict this, and we had a few words, that is all. I have not seen him since, and I can prove an alibi.’’ ‘““That’s all right, then,’’ the policeman replied, cheer- fully. ‘‘You don’t want any fuss here, do you?’’ ‘‘Not for worlds! I will say good-by to my mother and go with you.”’ He displayed a ten-dollar bill which effectually put a Gomichbooks (E(0) 3