When London Sleeps — page 185: what you’re looking at

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180 “GO AND SIN NO MORE.” With the exception of the officer, who was not in the secret, there was not a dry eye in the room. But the law must be enforced, and after a slight pause, its representative came fowrard and laid his hand upon Hilda’s shoulder. She turned and looked up wildly in his face. ‘‘Mamina,’??’ whimpered’ the little girl, °'I’m irightened. What does the policeman want??? Upon her knees her child still clasped close to her heart, Hilda turned her haggard eyes toward David Engleheart, the arbiter of her fate. ‘Ah, no! no! ‘You will not do this thing! Do not degrade me in the eyes of my own child! In God’s naine pity me.”? ‘“Have mercy, David!’’ sobbed Queenie, clinging to him. Her appeal, however, was scarcely necessary, for David, touched to the heart’s core, had already made up his mind. what to do. “Officer, I withdraw my charge.”’ The officer’s hand‘fell from Hilda’s shoulder. ‘“Hilda Corrode,’’? went on David, solemnly, and yet with infinite pity in his tones, ‘‘yes, for your child’s sake, I will spare you. Go, and sin no more !?? eet alte Sands Sane ew y | | comicbooks.com