A Daughter of Delilah — page 222: what you’re looking at

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THE LAST OF THE SIREN. 213 she was discharged to disappear into the great vortex of life. * * * * *K * * * For a few days the sensation was intense. Two or three of the great newspapers of New York devoted columns of imagination in describing the adventures of Queenie Rus- sell; and Jabez Alston, the financier, fled to Europe to live down the unenviable notoriety that had been thrust upon him. He was a broken-hearted and disgraced man. Though every effort was made to trace Gilbert Rose- berry, nothing more was ever heard of him, and his com- plete obliteration was considered one of the most marvel- ous on record. In police circles it was declared that he had committed suicide. Three months later there was a quiet home wedding at the Alston mansion, and the pretty daughter of the finan- cier became Mrs. Edward Hawley. | Following this, it created little surprise in business circles when an official. announcement was made that the reliable and prosperous old firm, which Jabez Alston had. founded, had passed into the hands of two promising young men—his son, Edgar, and his ‘son-in-law, Edward Hawley. ¢ (THE END.) Eomicbooks (E(0)