A Daughter of Delilah — page 175: what you’re looking at

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166 EDGAR ALSTON’S BETTER SIDE. He retired to rest but there was no sleep for him. It was a night of remorse. How well he remembered now that he had gone to Cincinnati almost at the express re- quest of his beautiful temptress. To her he had confided most of his family history. To her he had spoken half jestingly of his duty visits to his Aunt Radcliffe in Cin- cinnati. ‘‘My sister is staying there,’’ he had said,’’ I ought to escort her home, but cannot bear to tear myself away from you!’’ ‘Poor dear boy, you must go! It may be the last time for years! Your proud aunt will never forgive you for caring for poor me! I will write to you—I promise that.”’ He went, and had been made a tool of. All this while the siren was in communication with her convict husband by means of some secret cipher. He had been lured to Covington where the fellow was in hiding and laughed at! ~ He gnashed his teeth in bitterest rage! . And since then he had been robbed of an enormous sum of money—his father had been robbed—through him! He was at the office of Edward Hawley’s counsel early next morning, but Detective Hawkley did not put in an appearance. They waited until eleven o’clock, when the lawyer said: ‘Foul play! He will not come at all, Mr. Alston.”’ Edgar’s face was pale and stern. “Tt is hard to believe that such villainy can be in the very heart of New York!”’ ‘‘And will never cease until men are strong enough to withstand the wiles of bad women,’’ the lawyer replied,- sharply. GEomichbooks (Eo)