In Sight of St. Paul's — page 80: what you’re looking at

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HEART TO HEART, a eta Sa CHAPTER V. HEART TO HEART! It was a raw, chilly day in early November. ‘The wind blew in gusts, and the damp, cold air seemed to strike to one’s very marrow. But Tom Chichester, as he walked along Pall Mall, with the collar of his shabby coat turned up about his ears, was thinking but little of the discomfort of the weather. There was too much upon his mind for him to bother himself with trifles of that sort. It was now considerably over a year since he had so nobly, if somewhat quixotically, taken upon him- self the burden of another’s crime. ‘As soon as the excitement attendant upon his declaration of guilt had subsided, his father had promptly given a check for the sum demanded by the holder of the forged note, and had then proceeded no less promptly to cast-off his eldest son, peremptorily ° forbidding him ever to show his face in his presence again, | Tom, with no word,.of pleading or excuse, which, under the circumstances, was of course impossible, had at once left the house. Gomicbooks. co