The Face of Rosenfeld — page 73: what you’re looking at

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A tan a el 4 me ae 66 THE FACE OF ROSENIFEL. CHAPTER VI. THE REPLY. ies SEEMED, indeed, that the artist’s prediction that the mystery of the sea-road would remain a mystery forever was destined to be fulfilled. The days came and went and there was no developments to en- courage a faltering and disgusted police. It was the more strange because a full description of poor Annette had been published in all the papers, and there had been a deal of interestin the matter. But public interest to be kept alive must be fed, and one morning the city editors of the several dailies awoke to find a choice collection of new material for interesting reading, and straightway pigeon-holed the old till duller times. And so the poor creature with .the wounded intellect was forgot- ten. A very rich man had suddenly and completely disap- peared, under circumstances so suspicious as to warrant the most shocking speculations, And the newspapers did not spare their readers’ feelings. The reason was sim- ply that the newspapers had learned from long experience that their readers did not desire to be spared—in fact, would be rather inclined to resent any such forethought on the part of the newsgatherers. For this and the other good reason that the supplemental mystery of the assault on Ellen Maxey never got into print at all, the matter dropped. And so, Maxey’s great double mystery remained, in * ‘a > noha agh i . 7 : , R “2 £ . ’ ‘ : f < te ¥ 4 F F “i 2 ‘ : » ¥ —ereh be * Ne RS OO CS) aE, MG POSE) 4b EES eh A BG EE © ME Br es A RE ay 2S eS 2 SE a a pa Se li gee i a Ee et oe Oe ae ee J) Oo 2 A Ae