Love at the Loom — page 305: what you’re looking at

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tered as te turned and saw that the vehicle was a buggy, in which there was only one person. | The carriage was going very rapidly, however, and ce ie vies “i SHS Spa oi ) retary ah ae ee "Foiled eo a | Woman’ s : Wi it. SEE the driver seemed fully occupied in gazing earnestly | about him. He disregarded the signs cade him by William, and was about to pass on, when suddenly he pulled up as if A just aware of the presencé of the other. While he was reining in his horse, William was en- gaged in studying his face and general appearance, and was not.very pleasingly impressed. | The face was a handsome .one enough, but bore every mark of dissipation and brutality, and the cloth- ing he wore was far from such as a self-respecting man would wish to wear. “Beg pardon!" he said grufily, “but have you seen. ‘anything of a young lady coming along this way! 4 William started, hesitated, and then asked: “What sort of looking lady?” The man in the carriage, who was no othee than the ruffan, Harry, saw by William’s manner that he had something to communicate concerning some lady, and he did not doubt that it was Goldie. His eyes snapped, and it instantly flashed through his ready brain that the best way to overcome the hesi- - tation which he noticed was to ingratiate himself with this stalwart stranger. Eomichbooks.co m