A Daughter of Delilah — page 161: what you’re looking at

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152 EDWARD HAWLEY’S TROUBLE. to think that I hadn’t a friend left. You will take a mes- sage to my mother for me?”’ ‘‘Need you ask?”’ Edgar paced up and down opposite his friend’s cell for a minute, then went on: ‘‘And my father shall find the amount of your bail. I never intended speaking to him again, but for this I would face the devil himself. You understand that we have parted forever?’’ ‘‘T have heard something of it. Edgar you are mad! I know the resolves you have made, but I beg of you to keep free of any further entanglement With that woman for a short time——’’ | : ‘Hold! Not one word about her! If she were a daughter of the arch-fiend I should love her the same! When you are free we sail for Europe. I will not leave you with this hanging over you. You will prove an alibi?”’ ‘‘Undoubtedly. I was seen near the theater at the hour of the murder, but I had a companion, who is aiding my counsel to make a strong defense.”’ ‘Have you any suspicion as to the perpetrator of the crime? It appears to me to be shrouded in mystery.’”’ “T know who did it,’’ Hawley replied, ‘‘but I cannot prove it yet.’’ | He glanced sharply at his friend. ‘*A man?’’ Edgar asked. ‘‘No, a woman! Iam as positive as thoughI had seen the murder done. ”’ Alston smiled cynically. ‘‘Some poor creature whom the fellow had wronged?’’ he said. (Eo) TEOmIGEHOOKS