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Updated: June 8, 2025
It was reassuring, that little square of yellow lamp-light that shone softly from the window of her room. She was not afraid now. She would return to the cottage and lock the door. She shuddered at the thought. Before her rose the vision of that dark, shadowy face, tight-pressed against the glass. Instinctively she knew that Indian was not alone.
She knew at once that she was in the clutch of one of those terrors of tenement fast women, the lobbygows men who live by lying in wait in the darkness to seize and rob the lonely, friendless fast woman. She struggled and she was anything but weak. But not a sound could escape from her tight-pressed throat. Soon she became unconscious.
This time Bettins' reply was lost in a sudden shout of voices rising from the lower end of the flat. The vague forms of several horsemen appeared; there came the thunderous beat of flying hoofs. Howard's lips grew tight-pressed. True lifted himself on his elbow. 'It's Jim coming back! he called triumphantly. 'This way, Jim!
With the subsidence of Esmeralda the lioness renewed her efforts to wriggle her huge bulk through the weakening lattice. The girl, standing pale and rigid against the farther wall, sought with ever-increasing terror for some loophole of escape. Suddenly her hand, tight-pressed against her bosom, felt the hard outline of the revolver that Clayton had left with her earlier in the day.
Caryll had so wantonly wasted. Wharton looked on with tight-pressed lips, and wondered. Rotherby recovered, and for a moment the two men stood apart, seeming to feel each other with their eyes before resuming. Then his lordship renewed the attack with vigor. Mr.
Duchesses pointed her out to one another with a passing look rich shopkeepers' wives copied the fashion of her hats. Sometimes her landau, in its haste to get by, stopped a file of puissant turnouts, wherein sat plutocrats able to buy up all Europe or Cabinet ministers with plump fingers tight-pressed to the throat of France.
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