The Face of Rosenfeld — page 160: what you’re looking at

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LHH PACH OF ROSENFEL. 153 CHAPTER XIII. AFFAIRS OF THE HEART. S WITH pretty Ellen Maxey so with the others. The end seemed to have been reached. When Mr. Dye stalked out of the artist’s rooms, and the shiny surface of his woebegone coat had vanished from Maxey’s sight it seemed as if every ray of light that tended to illuminate the double mystery, to solve ‘which Maxey had stooped to a subterfuge, had vanished, too. Here at last the good artist, and the other acute in- vestigators, reached a dead wall. Here every thread was broken. Here, to all appearances, the matter came to a hopeless termination. Tle several actors in the drama settled down to the more ordinary happenings of daily hfe. New matters, quite as absorbing, however, removed from the terrible, claimed their attention. The more vivid sensations of to-day gradually obscured the less vivid sensations of yesterday. ‘They did not forget, © but they ceased to talk about the fateful might on the sea-road and all that grew out of it. ‘Lamar was unhappy. He was a frequent visitor at the artist’s rooms, even now, when there was no longer any need of his professional services. He seemed to come there in his leisure moments as a refugefrom him- self. He wasthe mostcheerful and witty of society, but the smile died on his lips when he crossed the threshold on his way out. It wasasif a shadow fell upon him 900 me in ead 4 Jey aheass as 4 “Ph eo 4) rae rf : * -' -4 at . Cy dat : rob ety ANS pe ; wd RY ee Tee os 2 Oa WR nota 3 ar at tie ay . ey Pa tr Tae OP on > - 2 . a . . . — al f “ey * ak a] ~ i 4 . - . | y = ro _ ~ ~ Y at < : — i . - = , ., ~ : . : -" b® he > L ; - Yad s nw . ae a’ a ¢ - : : I ite 7 e yi Sues 4 is E - , ¢ 7 sie = | al > * ‘ eo =; &" * mh i = 4 €. aN _ ey? gates > . f , ~* . < . — , . . “ av A — 2 é + a i) ee ‘ ‘ a») ot ae — a #7 . : i sal “a ree in~s'yy aig ea oe 4 pa art eth & AY at eed Ot A ean Sails, << 4 . “Ade r feel Sot Bao RS A OPO EME eT Ae ae eRe eek hs TN bet Sty aie ek a cS te a > ‘ ot a ’ a. ae oy ie lene 8 a et $F Peer Sto oa Neda h Erg ato nr 4: Aig DIN Sexe Lae at . SL ee ge heen ~_ el O 4, pagel SS (Oat 5 ow Ing : ws ae _o a id es ‘Pr ‘a o vs ’ wdd <a x ‘ “ * 2 iS ry ‘ ~ . : Oak We. er