A Daughter of Delilah — page 105: what you’re looking at

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96 ‘T MUST BUY THE PAINTED JEZEBEL !” And I hold you in the same contempt that I hold him, the pitiful sneak !’’ Without waiting for a reply, he dashed out of the house, and a minute later his outraged sister saw him walking swiftly in the direction of Broadway. After wandering about aimlessly for an hour, he drove - to Park avenue, and the hour being rather early for a call, he sent up his card to Isabel Russell, by the janitor. The latter soon returned, saying that the lady was out. ‘*Do you know when she will he home again?’’ he asked. He pressed a douceur in the shape of a five-dollar bill into the man’s hand. ‘It’s my belief that she is still abed,’’ the janitor whis- pered. ‘‘I saw lights burning in the rooms the best part of the night. There’s no reason for you to mention any- thing, sir, because we don’t want to offend a tenant who pays the rent promptly.”’ | He did not know that he was speaking to the man who paid for everything. ‘The lady had a visitor, sir,’’ the janitor added, with a smile, ‘“Yes—yes! Her aunt.”’ *‘No, sir! It was a gentleman—a regular swell! Dark beard and mustache, and eye-glasses. He staid all night, I guess, for I saw him slipping out pretty early this morn- ing.” You are sure of this?’’ demanded Alston, hoarsely. ‘‘No mistake, sir. I took him up to the lady’s rooms last night just after you left, and he didn’t leave till eight o’clock this morning while I was sweeping out the vesti- bule.’’ Eomichbooks. co