A Daughter of Delilah — page 197: what you’re looking at

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188 NO. 33 HAWTHOKNE AVENUE, RIDGEWAY, N. J. escape the attentions of your son. You shall have my new address to-morrow !”’ ‘‘Oh, Isabel! One word of hope!’’ he gasped. ‘‘It is yours, Mr. Alston. I can love and respect a man —but a boy, never!’’ She permitted him to kiss and fondle her hands, and at length he reeled into the street—her terrible spell upon him. The next morning he received in a scented envelope a card, upon which was penciled: ‘‘DEAR Mr. Atston:—My future address is No. 33 Haw- thorne avenue, Ridgeway, New Jersey. Do not let Edgar know of it for worlds. JI shall expect you soon. ‘*Yours, ISABEL RUSSELL.”’ The foolish old man pressed the writing to his lips, in a frenzy of delight. “Tam not too old to love,’’ he thought, ‘‘with a passion that young men never dream of!”’ Gomicbooks (E(0)