Page 166 (1/1)

There was no light in any other part of the house, they discovered, after abandoning the front door bell for an excursion to the rear "That's disheartening to a hungry person," Julia remarked: and then remembered that she had a key to the front door in her purse She opened the door, and lighted the hall chandelier while Noble brought in her bags from the steps where the taxicab driver had left thehtfully "Not even Ga his head "Nobody at all, Julia Nobody at all" Rousing hientleness set theo

"Wait, please," said Julia "I want to ask you a few things--especially about what you've got 'all down in black and white' in your pocket Will you shut the front door, if you please, and go into the library and turn on the lights and wait there while I look over the house and see if I can find why it's all closed up like this?"

Noble went into the library and found the control of the lights She ca in after him

"It's chilly The furnace see her intentions, she enacted theh on theshoe Then she knelt before the grate and set the fla-wood and coal "You htful kindness that killed hiain;--for she looked back over her shoulder

She had pushed up her veils and this was his first sight of that disastrous face in long e reveries upon its contours had shown but pallid likenesses; for here was the worst thing about Julia's looks;--even her e of her so char Julia again was always a discovery And this glance over her shoulder as she left a roo that she thought of the occupant, and one from him--this was one of those ways of hers that experience could never drill out of her