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She was of age, and, therefore, mistress of herself. Her friends, represented by this odious woman, could have no legal authority over her. I turned shortly up a side-street, and walked as fast as I could toward the house which was to have been our home. By a bold stroke I might reach Julia's presence. I rang, and the maid who answered the bell opened wide eyes of astonishment at seeing me there.

Presently she went and knelt in the windowseat, drawing patterns on the glass and looking up the side-street at the Castle Rock, which now glowed with a dark pyritic lustre under the queer autumn day of bright south sunshine and scudding bruise-coloured clouds, seeing the familiar scene strangely, through a lens of tears.

For nowhere in all this world could one hope to come upon a crowd better schooled in the rules of hero-worship, American-style, than this eleventh-hour mob which was pouring like tide-rips from side-street theaters into the city's main thoroughfare. Much has been written, of a distinctly pathetic flavor, concerning the case of a king without a throne.

Youse pay for me feed for the pleasure of me comp'ny; hey?" "That's the answer," said Nan, spiritedly. "We're going to be good friends, I can see." "We are if youse is goin' to pay for me eats," agreed the girl. "What is your name?" asked Nan, as their young pilot guided the chums across to the opening of a side-street. "Mine is Nan, and my friend's is Bess."

These bedroom windows looked into a narrow side-street; they were not very high; from them a man might drop on to the roof of a cab even as it passed and be driven away even under the noses of the police!

"What do they care what becomes of me?" she thought, as she looked up at the blank vacant windows for the last time before she left the main street of Forêtdechêne, and turned into a straggling side-street, whose rugged pavement sloped upward towards the pine-clad hills. Diana paused for a moment at the entrance to this lane, but, after a brief deliberation, walked onwards.

There it swerved again. From Broadway it barked loudly into a side-street where easily, with a soapy slide, it stopped. Paliser got out, preceded Cassy to the steps of the walk-up and smiled in her face. "When?" Cassy, the revised opinion of him about her, gave him her hand. "Ask the telephone." The hall took her. She was scaling the stairs. On the way Mrs. Beamish accompanied her.

This was not the reason why the little South London side-street was called Baker's Terrace, though it might well seem so; for Baker was the name of the builder, a worthy gentleman whose years and virtues may still be deciphered on a doddering, round-shouldered stone in a deceased cemetery not far from the scene of his triumphs.

They rode in silence after that, both of them reading in three colors the border effulgencies of frenzied advertising. But when they emerged to a quieter up-town night that was already pointed with a first star, he took her arm as they turned off into a side-street that was architecturally a barracks to the eye, brownstone front after brownstone front after brownstone front.

Charlotte, at the window, looking into the side-street that abutted on the Square, might have been watching for their visitor's advent before withdrawing; and in the light, strange and coloured, like that of a painted picture, which fixed the impression for her, objects took on values not hitherto so fully shown.