Ruby's Reward — page 341: what you’re looking at

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ee a, San, a el ee Fg OP mg gee amt NB ot She got her writing pad, pen, and ink, and wrote rapidly for ten or fifteen minutes. Then going to her trunk, she took out a small me- tallic paper weight, about the size of a silver dollar. She wrapped the paper, upon which she had written, closely about it, aud wound a coarse thread securely around it, then she took off her engagement-ring— that glittering diamond which Walter had so recently placed upon her finger—and marked or cut a goodly sized circle upon one of the window panes, and then seated herself once more to watch the passers by in the street below. She knew thatif she should see any one whom she felt that she could trust, she could, with one slight blow of her hand, send that piece of glass spinning from its place, and another instant would serye to send her weighted message after it. The how's sped on; still she had seen no one whom she recognized, and she dared not throw her message lest it should fall into careless hands, or into the pos- session of some one belonging to the house and thus fail of its object. The suspense was torturing—the strain upon her nerves fearful, and she became almost hysterical. Her breast rose and fell with suppressed sobs, her head grew hot and throbbing, as she imagined that cruel trial progressing, and the evidence telling against her lover. She could almost_ see Edinund Carpenter sitting there and listening, his cruel face glowing with triumph over thedownfall of his enemy ; and now she could almost seem to hear the fearful sentence passed upon Walter that would condemn him to spend long years behind prison bars. With a moan of anguish she pressed her hot, flushed face close against the window, and strained her eyes for the sight of some familiar form below, Suddenly she started to her feet, a wild, glad cry pursting from her fevered lips. The next moment, with one blow of her small hand, the circular piece of glass was shattered from its Blase and w ent flying upon the Pay er OE Seals, com w * Ld *