The Face of Rosenfeld — page 148: what you’re looking at

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THE FACE OF ROSENFEL. 141 sale.” The further fact that she had seen the footman come out of an area door beneath the steps when the carriage stopped, was all that she needed to induce an inspiration. The houses along here were extremely uniform. ‘lhere was a similar door closing beneath the steps of the unoccupied house. <A plain wooden door sat in the solid masonry and opened by a simple latch. Miss Maxey descended a short flight of steps, ap- proached this door and tried it. To her intense satisfac- tion it yielded to her touch. She pushed it open and went in. Not a very comfortable place, to be sure. Dark, cold, disagreeable, this little space beneath the steps, hardly fit for a tramp to sleep in! Miss Maxey turned the knob of the door leading from this area into the house. The door was fast. What matter, then, if 1t were cold and dark? She was at least secure from observation, and 1f she had ransacked the whole neighborhood in search of a convenient location from which to have watched the adjoining front steps, she could not have secured a better than the one upon which she had thus accidentally stumbled. She left the entrance slightly unclosed that she might look out, and sat down upon the wooden step with her back against the inner door. The time passed and the snow fell. It fell so thickly that it muffied the sound of footsteps in the street above. People came and went. It grew dark. A boy with a patent torch lighted the lamp in front of the brown stone steps. Miss Maxey’s limbs were cramped and cold. It seemed as though the minutes lengthened themselves to hours; the hours grew to be days; and still there was no appearance of the forlorn hat and the thread-bare coat upon the neighboring threshold, ‘The : - ‘ ; . - : 7 ° ™ 4 : at a. > ae » ’ 7 ~ ~ a -e4 ba * ae - e. . —" ‘ ® - . 4 ' : < be 2 "3 - / ’ > : - . . . * ra as : ~ onl We 5 ’ r pray aX * c ; ~ 4455 2 . . 5 ; a 4 ; a Ms ae 2 ye nS i) We a ag <=. te ete <Oe ee mtr, &, pre, bie a). : . re ir ry = ‘ } ? t eae ot ee fe TR ey a CRE. PS I ee an, ci ere ee CS ae eS Se PPA Be rr BASE! Tibet gr ad wh: SS Se eee NS te lt IS Te Tt BP 248 a re wD TA ee DF Ls» Beek Bee YT er ge ere) te ae te eee, Sere ee aS Ee, Bye ee LT en Ee ae ee ot aS ee A ee Pe Aer es i at Ws BAS ce dye Pty Das liga MN | ele aig MN SS pia A eRe NT ioe, DN Sia 5a et eee ne oF Be eas AT lt Sate ORLY ie SERN RR tag WNT Ne tn GAH tac ite MU SSK SMirele We eo eee eH pele pee = ~ LP *, ‘al Av a i, . ake Alyse se. i. Ws ad ese Se Ae ’ Cie ‘., at) dt Thee Oe IEG Bh teh oe. i igfet 8 eet oe, Tyee . ibn a ¥ syria eke pax : < <2 * at ~ CS: . ¢ 7 ? me te . ips . mH ~- & ‘ - - - + 4 hes Sih : ata a Ea de: af ‘, heal £ if