The Face of Rosenfeld — page 95: what you’re looking at

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af 3" 98 THE FACE OF ROSEN FEL. present extatic frame of mind, with a burden such as this to carry, he would willingly have kept on mounting forever. As for the palpitating burden herself, she was troubled with moresentimentsthan one. ‘l’his removal, her destination, her new friends, were so many mys- teries to her. ‘The truth had purposely been kept from her for a specific reason, and she had been informed only that she was to be taken to a more secluded place than the hospital, where she would be surrounded by brighter influences and would get well the quicker. Notwithstanding her weakness and her trepidation at finding herself in the arms of the strange men, she was seen to glance with an expression of interest and curi- osity upon the house and the entrance into which she was being taken. In spite of Doctor Lamar’s assurance to the contrary, Maxey hoped that she would recognize the place and its inmates without a word to aid her. ‘This was the object of his silence to her. It partook of the nature of an experiment. Miss Maxey, waiting for them in the corridor, held the door open for them to passin. ‘The girl looked at her in a mute, questioning manner, without a shadow of recognition, that thoroughly disappointed the artist’s sister. ‘I'he doctor’s strong tones were the first to break the silence. | “These are your new friends, Miss Dye. Here your home is to be as long as you careto make it. Krom the time you expressed a desire not to be taken back to your father they resolved to bring you here.” «They are very good to me,”’ said a faint voice. ‘‘ But do they know that I am a poor girl without money to pay them for their care?” ««They know everything that is necessary.”