A Daughter of Delilah — page 214: what you’re looking at

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RUN TO EARTH. 205 Satisfied that she could neither move nor cry out, he whispered to his companions: ‘‘T will face her alone! You keep watch here. If the man you know as St. Leonards appears, shoot him down as mercilessly as you would a mad dog!’’ He looked steadily at the young men, but there was a terrible glitter in his burning eyes. ‘‘We understand,’’ replied Hawley. ‘‘If you need help, a shout will bring us to you.”’ @ueenie was still singing and playing, and Edgar Alston stood and listened like one in a maddening dream. With one glance at Lucy, whose deathly face was filled with the fear of an awful misery, the detective passed through the gilded alcove that led to Isabel’s parlor, and parting the heavy portieres, passed into the room. Even in that brief moment, Edgar Alston saw that which was photographed into his brain forever. His heart sick- ened within him, then a flood of fierce anger and disgust swept like a storm of fire through his brain. The curtains fell back into their place and the scene of his aged father fondling this accursed siren was hidden from his view. When Hawkley walked in, Isabel favored him with a smiling glance, and half turned from the piano, while Jabez Alston scrambled to his feet. ‘‘Hr—who is this, my dear?’’ he demanded, with an assumption at dignity. ‘Only a friend of mine who is wonderfully clever in making up, you old darling. # Jabez Alston pressed one of her hands, while Isabel gazed critically at the figure before her. 6S Eomichboo