When London Sleeps — page 113: what you’re looking at

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108 == sis A DECIDED NEGATIVE cannot tell just whatit is. It is instinct, I suppose— the common instinct that God has implanted in our | hearts to enable us to recognize our friends and warn us of our foes.’’ ~ Haynes now let his anger master him. ‘Ah! you see I am only a private individual,” he said, with a bitter sneer. ‘‘It’s a pity Im not a Star of the Air in all the glitter of spangles and tinsel.’? - Queenie’s spirit, too; was now aroused. She turned upon him with crimsoned cheeks and flash- ing, indignant eyes. ‘It’s a-pity you are not a man!’’ she declared, vehemently. ‘‘It’s a pity you won’t earn an honest livelihood instead of insulting a defenseless girl who has shown nothing but kindness and consideration for you!”? It was a duel now, a duel without fear and with- out favor. “You will have to wait until you are of age, my fair cousin, before your montebank can claim you. And in that time your sentiments may undergoa change.”’ ‘Never! I would wait for him though it were a lifetime of years, till my hair. was white, my eyes dim with age, for I know that he would come to me at last to grasp my trembling hand in his!”? -“*‘How do you know that even now he has not found some other love? He has not written a line ue to you.”? — - ™ > 7 \ tun a - an = _—_ - _y _ ‘ 7 « *. ~ _—— = : : + > ? *« v : = ee} ee ey : al Vere atm Oo SF AS ts ee < . - 3 PF eS f ¢ . s=* ~ as . t = ee Sin be - - Queenie faced him anti suspicion amounting “to A peuaiaty Poe itself j in her mind, ees Aa ne aoe