A Daughter of Delilah — page 74: what you’re looking at

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IN THE MESHES OI’ THE SIREN, 65 nights in that infernal tunnel weakened me, but luck ran my way, and when I heard the station-agent advise him to walk back to Covington through the tunnel I knew that I was safe. Jl had been tracking him foran hour. Now as to the future?”’ “T shall want you to obey me, Gilbert, and within three months we will be in Europe with a million at least.’’ He was startled, and the color showed through the dye on his face. ‘Ts it a safe lay?’’ he asked. ‘‘New York will soon be too warm for us—it is too warm now; andl propose to spend a life of luxury else- where. I have this Alston in leading strings—I intend having the father—the entire family. Palmer is working with us.” ‘‘Curse him!’’ scowled Roseberry. ‘‘He is indispensable to the perfect success of my schemes,’’ smiled Isabel. ‘‘You have no need for further jealousy, Gilbert. Palmer’s fever is at an end, and to him, equally with myself, you owe your present liberty.”’ ‘‘Go on,’’ he said, gloomily; ‘‘but lam sorry that my old foe still has the whip-hand over me. I fondly hoped that this secret was between us two—and my sister Lucy.’”’ ‘“‘T tell you that Palmer is utterly and completely in my power. You shall never suffer through him. I would kill him first!’’ she hissed. In a few words she unfolded to him the substance of a diabolical plot, and he listened with glistening eyes. ‘‘Tsabel,’’ he said, at last, ‘‘if I did not worship you, I should believe that you were a beautiful devil. My only Gomichboo CS