When London Sleeps — page 178: what you’re looking at

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“GO AND SIN NO MORE.” aR ‘“Hush!? interrupted Queenie, whose mind was already inade up. Then she turned slowly to the unhappy mother. ‘Stay here, Hilda,’’ she said, far more gently than she had spoken hitherto. ‘‘We will return ina few minutes.’ Hilda’s hands fell. ‘There was a wild eagerness in her eyes as she cried: ‘“Ah, vou have repented! You will give it back ?”? ‘“No,’’? answered Queenie, firmly. ‘‘The pocket- book I shall keep.” As for yourself, I say again, wait, and perhaps amore mercy may be shown to you than you have shown to others.’’ She took Carrie’s hand, and together the two girls left the room. As she followed them with her eyes, all tender- ness, all softness vanished from Hilda Corrode’s face, to be replaced by a wolfish ferocity. She did not understand. How could she have done so? She believed that this girl who had stood between her and the man she loved was now to part her from her child. Well, she thought savagely, every dog has his day, and hers would come yet. Queenie Car- ruthers might° be in her power again, and the next: time she would stake her soul that she should not escape so easily. , These cruel resolves were interrupted by a knock at the door. ‘“Gome in,’? she called, composing her face. A man appeared in a dark-blue uniform. Beneath» 4 his arm, he carried a leather case. He had a pleas- comicbooks.co 3