Her Faithful Knight — page 301: what you’re looking at

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The Uses of Advertisement. 297 large, for he had ventured and lost his remaining few hundreds at Monte Carlo before Christmas, and had ex- hausted his mother’s resources. But the hope of obtain- ing possession of Mrs, Julius Knight’s fortune supplied the second and satisfied the third. Private detective work was employment dear to Darcy’s soul, and for which his plausibility, his sympathetic man- ners and his swift cunning peculiarly well adapted him. He had learned a great deal more than the police dreamed of in his peregrinations in the neighborhood of Lockhart Cottages, and in order to facilitate these researches he had taken this furnished flat not far from the Addison Road railway station. Yesterday’s proceedings had affected his delicate, sensi- tive organization painfully. The mere notion of having the ugly secrets of the tomb dragged to the light of day, and of being forced to identify the changed and distorted horror thus exposed as the woman he had loved and de- sired for her beauty, filled him with strong repulsion and shuddering sickness. From the coroner’s court he had fled to the West End and had endeavored, in such de- lights as a dainty and expensive dinner at a fashionable restaurant, a visit to a music hall, and later to a dancing- room, to drown the memory of his afternoon’s experi- ences. At ten o'clock this morning his head ached vio- lently and he felt extremely cross and thirsty; but it soothed him to read, in the two Sunday papers he had sent for, sympathetic references to the “bereaved husband of the deceased Mrs. Derrick,” who, “overcome by his emotion” had fainted after giving evidence of identifica- tion on the previous day. . Darcy loved to be referred to in the newspapers, to which he assiduously sent paragraphs concerning his doings at all times, when he was not hiding from his cred- itors. He possessed an immense scrap-book, with a pad- (E(0) OS