A Daughter of Delilah — page 185: what you’re looking at

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— 176 DISASTER FOR DETECTIVE HAWKLEY. Minnie opened her eyes in wonderment. “T thought you knew. He told me this morning not: to expect him, as he had pressing business some distance from New York. He will probably not return home to- night, and I am so glad that you are here!”’ ‘“Strange!’’ muttered Edgar; ‘‘but I suppose it is all right. ”’ It was late when he retired, and his last thoughts were of his father and Detective Hawkley. While these important events are crowding one upon another, how have matters fared with the detective? When he left the Athenian Club, after his conversation with Edgar Alston, it was his intention to go to his apart- ments. His business for the day had been concluded in a most satisfactory manner, and he fully believed that with- ~ in a few hours the whole of his fish would be landed! ‘‘T will face her!’’ he hissed. ‘‘I will unmask her at the last moment, and the wrongs of the past will be fully avenged! Curse her fair face! Curse her black heart! For years have I been baffled, but the men who call them- selves Roseberry and Palmer shall acknowledge that I am their master at last!’’ Unconsciously his footsteps wandered in the direction of the well-known apartment-house on Park avenue, and he turned his eyes toward the two brilliantly illumined win- dows of the floor occupied by the traitress and her confed- erates, who lived but to prey upon their fellow-creatures, Muttering a savage oath of triumph, he was passing on when he saw that which filled him with astonishment. The fashionable coupe of the great Wall street financier drove up to the door, and five minutes later Jabez Alston Eomichbooks. co