Ruby's Reward — page 223: what you’re looking at

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She was a trifle nervous and uncomfortable, too, for she had dropped a note to Walter a day or two previous, telling him of their contemplated change, and asking him to come out to their new home to spend this Sabbath evening with her, and she could not help dreading to have these two men meet. But Walter did not come. Hour after hour passed, and Ruby watched and waited in vain, until, feeling both sad and lonely, she crept away to her own room and retired to rest. (TO BE CONTINUED.) comicbooks.conn