A Daughter of Delilah — page 80: what you’re looking at

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IN THE MESHES OF THE SIREN. “1 upon, he drove toward the park, planning in his fevered mind how he should best approach his father in this matter that was life and death to him. Promptly at six o’clock the spirited ponies were pulled up before the brown-stone apartment house in Park avenue, and ten minutes later the delighted fool was arranging the wraps about a graceful female figure, cov- ered with costly furs—that were not paid for, and stood to the debit side of Mr. Edgar Alston! A pair of glorious black eyes were beaming upon him, and he felt that the world were well lost even for this brief spell of ecstasy! And when the ponies rattled away, their silver trap- pings flashing bravely under the glow of the electric lights, Alston dreamed not that two pairs of eyes were watching him. He was securely entangled in the meshes that the siren had woven about him, and he had no wish to be free! Gomicboo cS (E(0)