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It was the half of a link cuff-button of unique design, and I looked at it carefully. "Where was it? In the bottom of the hamper?" I asked. "On the very top," she replied. "It's a mercy it didn't fall out on the way." When Liddy had gone I examined the fragment attentively. I had never seen it before, and I was certain it was not Halsey's.
The warm chimney seemed a poor thing to lean her head against while she felt that her faith was failing. Then the remembrance of the shot Ephraim had fired and his callousness choked back her tears. She waited an hour, two hours; then, becoming anxious on Halsey's account, she borrowed a lantern and went across the fields to Knight's farmhouse. Quite a number of people had gathered.
Halsey's eyes, the touch of his hand, her baby's voice lisping the tenets of their faith in repetition of his father's solemn tones, these were sights and sounds as yet too near her. To her shocked fancy the child and his father were only gone out of sight, but near enough to be cruelly hurt by her public perversion.
By many a prayer she heard breathed, which was in truth, though not in form, a curse, she knew that in the souls of Halsey's successors there was no forgiveness, yet her heart went out in sympathy to men who were sacrificing their own sense of honour, holding in check their most delicious impulses of revenge, for the sake of being worthy shepherds to the weak.
I resolved to make inquiry when I got home, and in the meantime, my present errand absorbed me. This was nothing less than to see Louise Armstrong, and to attempt to drag from her what she knew, or suspected, of Halsey's disappearance. But here, as in every direction I turned, I was baffled.
It was Halsey's flowing signature to a dot, but it lacked Halsey's ease. The ones toward the bottom of the sheet were much better than the top ones. Mr. Jamieson smiled at my face. "His old tricks," he said. "That one is merely curious; this one, as I said before, is puzzling."
Was there some real connection, she wondered, between it and the creature who had been prowling round the farm? Was some one personating the ghost, and for what reason? The same queries were ardently in the mind of Dempsey. He reported Halsey's adventure, commenting on it indignantly. "It's some one as knows the story, and is playin' the fool with it. It's a very impudent thing to do!
It was barely more than a mile through this subterranean corridor to where we could get the vertical lift direct to the landing stage. We started off on the lower level. Once outside the insulation of Halsey's office we did not dare talk of this thing. Not only electrical ears, but every possible eavesdropping device might be upon us.
He took the fragment of linen upon which the stain of Halsey's blood had turned dark with time, and showed her a new and brighter stain upon its edges. All around them were men and women, who now, for the first time since the hour of some terrible parting, spied kindred or comrades.
It seems the man was grateful for his release, and when he learned some thing of Halsey's whereabouts from another member of his fraternity for it is a fraternity he was prompt in letting us know. On Wednesday evening Mr.
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