When London Sleeps — page 92: what you’re looking at

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TEMPTER AND CEMPTED. 87 CHAPTER IX. TEMPTER AND ‘TEMPTED. Rodney Haynes was pretty well satisfied with the way everything was progressing. And yet all rested upon the new heiress, and the influence over her he might manage to obtain. Left to himself, and dependant upon his own re- - sources, the outlook was desperate enough. He had fairly ‘*got the knock out,’’ as he put it to himself. Nothing more to be expected from the tribe of Solo- mon, Isaacs & Company, even with their demands of exorbitant interest. There was only one chance before him. And that? Why, a ceremony at St. George’s, Hanover Square, or some equally swell church, of course. Theatrical marriages were fash- ionable in high life just at present. He would make anew departure, and ally himself to the ring and sawdust. To be sure, this cousin of his, with her circus connections and her large fortune, was not exactly his style, but when a man was forced to give him- self away, it did not much matter who or what was the object. Money-bags and lands were the real birds nowadays. He was thinking all this as he strolled through the park in Blackburn an hour or so after his interview with Queenie. ° = @ icbooks.co