The Face of Rosenfeld — page 34: what you’re looking at

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THE FACH OF ROSENIFEL. rar CHAPTER III. THE TOTAL ECLIPSE, ALLAVGi*E PLACE is avery quiet street at all times. On a still day footsteps awake echoes there. Not because it is far from the busy center of the city, for it leads directly out of an important avenue through which there is much passing, but because it is not a thoroughfare. On two sides substantial brick houses present an uninterrupted front to the street. On the third side a high picketed fence prevents it from leading over a solid pile of masonry, rising only to its level and known as a sea-wall, directly into the river. Ballavoine Place and all the streets in this vicinity oc- cupy what is termed ‘‘ made land,” for the time was not long ago when the tide from the neighboring harbor flowed twice a day over the salt marshes twenty feet be- low the present paved and solid surface. ‘Therefore it is that the buildings are all new and stately, and that only well-to-do people live here. No. 20 is the last house on the street next the river. It is so near it, in- deed, that only a narrow court-yard intervenes between the sea-wall and its foundation stones. ‘This house is what is popularly termed ‘‘ an apartment house;” that is to say, it is let out in suits, floor by floor, to different families. In December, 1884, the name on the books of the lessee of this house against suit No. 5, which com- prised the rooms in the upper story, was Julian Maxey. an St 7 2 Bits! 7 . ; . i ie vo oe >. ¥ . 7.-- = . . 7 : (EES SER IRR Ta neat TERRE a nee eM ee Rear en = a a ae gs he -. int fe that i Ae Ms Are eA C i» PO Os SP oo WD ee Se ®. OF Oke se Pee he. 4 a A * comicbooks n