The Face of Rosenfeld — page 36: what you’re looking at

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THE FACE OF ROSENFEL. 29 face of a young woman—a pale face with large, dark eyes, which roved about incessantly, as if in quest of a horror that never came. 3 ‘“How does she seem to-day?” Julian Maxey ques- tioned in a.tone of deep anxiety. «« Just as she has been since we found her. Just as she seems likely to be for the rest of her days—in a state of total eclipse.”” There was no air of jocularity about Doctor Lamar’s manner. He was very much dis- satisfied with the situation, although his concern was of a different nature from_Maxey’s. A medical problem that baffled him always aroused in him a grim antagon- ism that was far from humorous. «< You don’t mean to tell me you are beginning to look upon this as a hopeless case!’ Maxey exclaimed, in con- sternation. Whenever Maxey got excited his hair promptly exhibited a tendency to assume an erect atti- tude and his necktie inevitably became awry. Lamar noted that he was now somewhat excited. ‘1 mean to tell you, as I have told you, that even partial recovery is very improbable.” “‘ But you will not say impossible?” ‘«<’They are synonymous terms with most of us. For my part, lam cautious. ‘There is the one chance.in a million that always exists.” Miss Maxey had come into the room in time to hear this disheartening reply. She spoke up with almost hysterical emphasis: | ‘* And that one chance will save her. I believe too much in the justice of Heaven to think for a moment that she will le here and die with closed lips. I don’t, I can’t, believe it. As sure. as there is a God, or any Proyidence in human events, the time will come when Cc = co mn 900 ape Be io ik, ae a rate bi a > a eR Bade Wate a bes, Sa Pl ic i Se Po eae yy \ shite oo LY “« Se ak, aR ae na ™ of >) afte pels vee Oe at, ae “ mon Se c is 5 een, 6 as oe tas Age’ 7 wa 7 ie ak : me ey ¢; om iay “ay? het Tae TF oo Sy ee Se . “Oy i : a = 2 “7 Tye 5 »S- aA << eto 4 cath: De = ¥. - 7 of Lg. ~*~ a 4s _~ +e “544 “? as ON. Ly. > x . ~ " -* P| eee fet ie ‘ . : ; ty = - *, t ts Fad ges a Be ee ag 3 gn ahs Ewihe-¢ ~~ : Oe ie os & Led ax Ves 7. per cS co $ Fe Bs So