Under His Thumb — page 171: what you’re looking at

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-“~ "eg. UNDER HIS THUMB. CHAPTER XXII, STELLA’S TRIAL. It was indeed George Dyer, the missing foreman of Blain & Waldron’s printing-house, who stood in the door-way of the lonely hut, face to face with Stella Brandon and Katie Byrnes. It was no wonder they uttered expressions of mu- tual amazement as they recognized each other. The young man gazed in silence into the beauti- ful face of the vagabond’s daughter for a full min- ute. Then he lowered his lantern, and stepped under the rude shelter. ‘I’m not going to run away from you, Stella,’’ he declared, something like an expression of relief in his tones. | ‘“Why should you flee from any one, George?”’ she demanded, stepping backward, and eying him sus- — piciously. “That is not easy to explain,’’ he replied. And after a moment’s pause he added: “‘Were you run- hing away, too?’’ | eV OS." “From whom?”’’ ‘The detectives. ”’ ‘“You don’t mean to say, Stella, that they suspect you of anything wrong?’’ r “I do not know what they suspect. But they are trying to take me—as a witness, perhaps. They sus- pect some one else.”’ ““Whom?’’ She looked straight into the young man’s eyes as she answered: ‘“You can guess as well as I can tell you.” ‘Your father, I suppose—Carl Brandon.”’ “Of course. He is suspected of everything evil. And yet he never wronged any one.”’ ‘““Perhaps they may be right, Stella. Carl Bran- don has a bad temper, you know.’’ comicbooks.com | Mt a agi rg a <tye ue ii e 4 ' eet tats * =<. , : : > 4 ? : a > : , aie P=. al oe + ¢ 1 . . é - « — * +48 i = 7 a gE ng Oe, Oe . Pa o é oe * 2