[The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. Packard]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Jimmie Dale CHAPTER VI 6/58
After all, he had known it in his heart of hearts all the time--it had always been the same--it was only one more occasion added to the innumerable ones that had gone before in which she had eluded him! And now--there was the letter! Automatically he quickened his steps a little.
It was useless, futile, profitless, for the moment, at least, to disturb himself over his failure--there was the letter! His lips parted in a strange, half-serious, half-speculative smile.
The letter--that was paramount now.
What new venture did the night hold in store for him? What sudden emergency was the Gray Seal called upon to face this time--what role, unrehearsed, without warning, must he play? What story of grim, desperate rascality would the papers credit him with when daylight came? Or would they carry in screaming headlines the announcement that the Gray Seal was caged and caught at last, and in three-inch type tell the world that the Gray Seal was--Jimmie Dale! A block down, he turned from Broadway out of the theatre crowds that streamed in both directions past him.
The letter! Almost feverishly now he was seeking an opportunity to open and read it unobserved; an eagerness upon him that mingled exhilaration at the lure of danger with a sense of premonition that, irritably, inevitably was with him at moments such as these.
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