Predestined; A Novel of New York Life

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1910. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 1 g X g s. he he aid ish the ants rned open: n he; outon of than jefore CHAPTER XVI Anxious to escape at once from that environment, he sent for an auctioneer, who asked: Do you want a public sale? Felix recoiled from the thought of strangers tramping through her home. The auctioneer, accordingly, explored the rooms, appraised each article, and, after letting fall some words about hard times and the scarcity of cash, offered the young man seventy-five dollars down for everything. Felix made a gesture of resignation. The other, looking surprised and discomfited, went off for his porters. They stripped the flat. The bare aspect of the parlor recalled to Felix the day when he and she had come house-hunting. Just so others would come now. It seemed to him that the little, garish room ought to express, somehow, in perpetuity, the tragedy it had enclosed. And yet, the next tenants would never see, as he did whenever he turned round, a chimera dissolving in the shadows. Now it took shape beyond a succession of open doors, in the kitchen; again, from the kitchen he saw it float before a parlor window. Lacking outline and substance, vaguer than any apparition of conventional report, less like a wraith, indeed, than a mere fall of shade at the passage of a cloud before iht sun, it was, for Felix, indefinitely suggestive of h DEGREESr person--as if one had there some unfathomable analogy to the echo, lingering after the voice has *i*cd sway. But when, taking his departure in the t-0ti ht, he laid hand upon the door-knob, did she DEGREES