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held something more than mere water.
she sat down suddenly and began again
to nurse her head. "I'm lll," she mur-
mured faintly-“very ill."
', "Well, yo got 1 perfect right to be.
dearie, afierthat jolt of hop Charlie
slilllled you
lieve me. I thought at first you was
ead."
wish I were," Priscilla groaned.
"Where am I’."'
"Meanin’ to insinuate you don't know?
Ah, forget it!“ - ,
“How did I get here?"
, “I guess maybe that's somethin' you
don't know.’ Inez laughed spitefully.
“And I dol'i‘l. mind teIlin'; Harry fol-
lowed you down I-‘ift' avenue 'safternoon
sure you wouldn‘t wake up at the wrong
time, and brought you down here in a
taxi. That's your history up to date.
Cheer up; the worst is yet to come. And
when it comes-grab this from me-im
nocent 1i’l Inez is goin‘ to have a ring-
side seat." . 7
"I don't understand . . ."
The words were barely audible: but
the termagant heard. Her sneer dark-
ened. r
"Well. if you gotta know: the hunch's
outside makin' up their minds what to
do with you. .I‘baven‘t got no idear
what they'll i'ine’ly settle on, but it’ll be
plenty. whatever it is. I it was any-
body else I'd feel sorry for them; but
0 ,,.
Her laugh was harsh and jeering. For
sole response the cringing dgure on the
bed suddenly sank’ in upon itself, then
over upon one side, where it lay sprawl-
ing, inert, Whites of eyes showing under
halt-closed lids. >
tartled, the woman. bent over Pris-
cilla. But her breathing went on monot-
onously. She had merely fainted.
CHAPTER XLII.
THE TRAP.
THE blinding prismatic glare that tilled
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starts hissed and spat angrily.
d no means of knowing how
long it had been burning; that is to say,
how long she had been insensible; but
it was long enough, at ,all events, for
the atmosphere of that-stuffy hole to
‘have grown sickening with heat and its
aggravation of the native stench.
more intense: a matter of spiteful cal-
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Inez had however. reckoned with
covering from her swoon, but she felt
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stronger, better able to
work out thought in aortic
At present, however. two considera.
tlons dominated algothers: her need of
water: the necessity somehow to escape
from that place of terror and abomina-
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to the door. and listened there
ear to the joint
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sign or inadvertence. Inez had neglected
to look it!
A peering reconnaissance showed
nothing but gloom immediately beyond
the door, Trembling, the’glrl opened it
wide. The light from the gasjet then
revealed a badly smelling
, What lay beyond was
unzuessable; there was no ligh
h air 0 the hallway was heady
with that subtle, sickly smell. alluring
and appalling . . . the breath of
death. She had smelt it before,
somewhere, at some time indefinite. .
At length she knew it: the reek
of opium smoke in
Ho, to which she-or Leonora-had gone
that night (so long ago! to meet Charlie
the Coke. '
so that was where they had brought
her . . .
The quiet of the house seemed to gain
sinister accent
evidently behind one of the two other
doors.
.The’advan(:ed one unshod. timid foot
across the threshold, faltered, took an-
other step and close the door behind
her, shutting herself out into untemliered
darkness, and stole feariully on, feeling
her way with hands that brushed the
walls. .
The attempt was hazardous. In her
heart she believed it fated to fall. But
perhaps she was wrong; she might suc-
ceed . . . If not, no
ceivable could be more awful t
lot that might be hers if she did nothing,
but supinely waite . .
Under her tread, light and furtive tho
, At almost
every other step she was fain to bait and
wait. listening. heart in mouth, her
breathing stayed.
‘he rew near to the farther door.
The voices became more detinite. Seem-
ingly several persons were closeted in
that room, all talking at once, in discord-
ant dissension. Now an again one voice
or another would momentarily assert ltv V
once it was disciplined and taught its
place, the controversy would proceed as
are,
The notion came to her, was enter-
tained and established as an Idea ilxcd.
that if she could only Win past that door,
the rest would be easy, an unhindered
way of escape would open out to her.
She was within two paces of success
when an especially violent wrangle end-
d
The girl shrank back. instinctively fiat-
choking gust of air heavy laden with to-
bacco smoke. man came out, turning
toward Priscilla's recent prison. Blind-
ed by the transition from light to dark-
tactlori, and with one ruihanly swing ent
her staggering into the room.
Somehow she escaped a tumble, rlghled
herself, stood crlnging, blinking, trem-
ling’.
The door closed with A bang. The ac-
cents of the Nut. destitute for the time,
of all pretentious to polish, announced:
"Here she is now! Caught her Just in
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Coolly the voice of Inez replied: “May-
be I did-don't remember."
"D-d careless at you "
What difference does it
make? She didn't get away. did she?
She couldn't, not in a thousand years.
without we let her." g
Pris began to get her bearings.
finding herself in that sordid room where
body of the drug fiend. on the night of
the storm. But its bunks now were
tenantless. the manner mattresses which
had cluttered its floor were heaved In
3 corner, a large plain tabla occupied the
middle of the room. beneath a. sizzling
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were bottles nnd glasses, plates dedi-
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