Ruby's Reward — page 307: what you’re looking at

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“It's along climb, miss,” the maid said, in a tone of apology ; “but the gentleman wanted a room at the top of the house where he could get good air.’ She opened a door as she spoke and ushered Ruby into a pretty parlor, with a bedroom opening out of it. But no sooner had she stepped over the threshold than the door was quickly closed again, there was a sound as of the click of a key turning in the lock, and—Ruby Gordon was a prisoner. She realized this in an instant, and her heart gave one startled botind, then sank like lead in her bosom, while a deadly whiteness spread over her face, She darted into the bedroom, with a faint hope that she might find her good triend there. But no; it was empty ! j There was another door, however, in the room. ‘pon sprang to it, but, of course that was locked also. She went toa window and looked out, But she only saw, far beneath, a simall court, inclosed with high brick walls. Back into the parlor she ran, and looked out of a window there. : Four stories beneath her lay the street—a very. quiet street—and she did not recognize the locality, while the houses on the opposite side looked gloomy and forbidding in the extreme, with their windows half-shuttered and their curtains drawn low. She tried to raise the window, but could not, for it had been securely nailed down. She knew, without being told, that Edmund Car- penter had sprung this trap upon her, He had seut acarviage early, in order to be before Mr. Ruggles, and had brought her to this place to try to break her spirit and make Me TeotitSoctecdt will