In Sight of St. Paul's — page 254: what you’re looking at

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LIGHT AT LAST. 3 249 CHAPTER XVII. LiiGH TA AW ASPs The trial was over. The jury had given its verdict, a verdict which had been almost a foregone .conclusion; and Tom Chichester, thanks to the tardy awakening of the Panther’s conscience and the consequent testimony of Fretly Burnsides, was a free man. As he left the dock, Gracie flung herself into his — arms, and Gillie Fletcher, his honest blue eyes shining with a suspicious moisture, grasped him warmly by the hand. But Tom’s glance sought in vain for the one of all others who was dearer to him than all else upon earth. Aileen’s sweet face, with the love and trust shining in her beautiful eyes, had been his chief sup- port and comfort during the long, weary, anxious hours of the trial, and now that all was happily ended, she was not there to greet him. ‘(Where is she?’ he asked. Gracie understood and answered as-well as her emotion would permit her, GComichbooks (E(@)