The Face of Rosenfeld — page 49: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

nee is tah sir mae 49 THE FACH OF ROSENFEL., extraordinary. ‘The name is explicit enough in all con- science. A woman writing a confidential letter like that to a friend does not often take so much pains to get in her full name, as if she were signing a will. ‘Take care that some crafty fellow hasn’t thrown this letter in your way for the purpose of putting you on the wrong track.” Maxey looked a little bewildered, but he seized his hat and coat, without making a reply, and darted down the stairs. ‘“What very excitable people these Maxeys are! thought the philosophic doctor, as he went away, ‘‘ and what a deal of interest they do take in this case. I wonder where Miss Ellen went to? How pretty she looked when her blood was up! There would be some satisfaction in crossing such a woman just for the picture one would get. But, bah! what am I thinking about? What is this to me?” | Nevertheless, he sighed as he went back, half heartily, to his work again. ‘Till very recently this work had been his pride and his life. Now, as he took it up, it seemed like a task, almost a burden. There was a woman’s face—a handsome, but not a welcome face, be- fore his eyes night and day. Something was wrong with Doctor Lamar; something seriously wrong with him, something from which even his science might not save him. 199