The Blockade Runner — page 31: what you’re looking at

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oe fHH BLOCKADE RUNNEE. CHAPTER IV. SHORT BUT SIGNIFICANT. Onty two persons of all the crowd on the wharf fol- — lowed the movements of Mr. Mowbray and Robert Bentham. One was a dapper-looking young man of thirty, ' with piercing dark eyes, regular features that might be considered handsome, but which gave some evidence of fashionable dissipation. A physiognomist would rather have distrusted his face, discerning craft and dissimulation in every line. His chin and moath showed dogged resolution and stubbornness. Altogether it could not be termed a pleasing coun- tenance, though there was no doubt of the indications of latent energy that characterizes a successful busi- ness man. He was known to his intimates as Flash Gilmor. His companion was younger, much handsomer, but weak and listless, as though he took the world easy, | and possessed no other care than the negative exertion necessary to amuse the passing moment. “You saw those two men who just drove off, Jes- sup? said Gilmor. : “Yes, I saw them,” was the reply. “I recognized Mowbray, ef course. Everybody knows that oid Croesus.” Comicbooks (©)