Ruby's Reward — page 309: what you’re looking at

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A feeling of dismay took posseasion of her as she realized that she might be kept there for weeks, per- haps months. Meantime Walter’s trial would come off, and she alone knew of the plot that had been laid to ruin him; she.alone could save him from shame and imprisonment, for he would surely be convicted if Estelle’s diamonds were tound upon his person, as his enemy had planned. Oh,if she hadonly told all to Myr, Ruggles that morn- ing! She saw now that she ought to have done so— that her shrinking on account of Edmund Carpenter's presence had resulted ina delay that might prove fatal to him whom she so dearly loved, It was a very pale and distressed face that Ruby wore as 8he thought of all these things, shut away in that room on the fourth story of an unknown house. But she was a brave little body, notwithstanding, and would not allow hersel! to give way to useless weeping and repining. She, on the other hand, de- termined to put a bold face on the matter, and show her captor that she would not yield an iota to him, while it would go hard with herif she could not set her woman’s wit to devise some way out of her trouble. “Tecan sit at the window, day in and day ont, and watch for some one whom I know; then I will break a pane of glass and cry out for help, There must be some way to get out of this dreadful place,” she said, ‘resolutely. Just at this moment she heard steps outside her door, then something heavy set down in the hall. The next instant the key was turned, the door opened, and Edmund Carpenter walked into the room. (TO BE CONTINUED.) — comicbooks.com