Geraldine Bonner

Name: The Girl at Central — Chapter 4
Author: Geraldine Bonner

The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

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“The Girl at Central — Chapter 4”, published in 1915, is a work by Geraldine Bonner. It explores elements such as Hines, Tecla Rabine and Sylvia.

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ No one at Mapleshade saw Sylvia leave the house, no one in Longwood saw her pass through the village, yet, two and a half hours from the time she had made the date with Mr. Reddy, she was seen again, over a hundred miles from her home, in the last place anyone would have expected to find her.
Way up on the turnpike, two miles from Cresset's Crossing, there's a sort of roadhouse where the farm hands spend their evenings and automobilists stop for drinks and gasoline. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ Mrs. Hines was upstairs in the room above in bed with a cold. There was a fire burning in the stove, as a good many of Hines's customers were the dagoes that work at Cresset's and the other farms and they liked the place warm. Hines was reading the paper and Tecla Rabine was cleaning up the bar before she went upstairs, she having a toothache and wanting to get off to bed.
At the inquest Hines swore that he heard no sound of a car or of wheels—which, he said, he would have noticed, as that generally meant business—when there was a step on the piazza, the door opened and a lady came in. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ It's got a shady reputation, being frequented by a rough class of people and once there was a dago—a laborer on Cresset's Farm—killed there in a drunken row. It's called the Wayside Arbor, which doesn't fit, sounding innocent and rural, though in the back there is a trellis with grapes growing over it and tables set out under it in warm weather.
At this season it's a dreary looking spot, an old frame cottage a few yards back from the road, with a broken-down piazza and a door painted green leading into the bar. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ Nailed to one of the piazza posts is a public telephone sign standing out very prominent.
At the time of the Hesketh mystery I'd only seen it once, one day in the summer when I was out in a hired car with Mrs. Galway and two gentlemen friends from New York. We'd been to Bloomington by train and were motoring back and stopped to get some beer. But we ladies, not liking the looks of the place, wouldn't go in and had our beer brought out to us by the proprietor, Jake Hines, a tough-looking customer in a shirt without a collar and one of his suspenders broken.
It's very lonesome round there. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ They can fix it themselves," then she added, after a minute, "I've telephoned for someone to come for me and if the car's really broken we can tow it back."
That seemed so straight and natural that Hines began to get less curious, still he wanted to know who she was and tried to find out.
"You come a long ride if you come from Longwood," he said. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ His wife said he'd done wrong to let her go, it wasn't right for a person like that to be alone on such a solitary road, especially with some of the farm hands, queer foreigners, no better than animals.
She worked upon his feelings till she got him nervous and he was going to get a lantern and start out when he heard the sound of an auto horn in the distance. He stepped to the window and watched and presently saw a big car with one lamp dark coming at a great clip down from the Firehill Road direction. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ He stood in the doorway watching her as far as he could see, then told Tecla, whose toothache was bad, to go to bed. After she'd gone he locked up, went upstairs to his wife and told her about the strange lady. ”

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Geraldine Bonner, The Girl at Central — Chapter 4 (1915)

“ Fowler. With the letter in her hand Mrs. Fowler ran downstairs and telephoned to the Doctor.
The poor lady was in a terrible way and when Anne got back she had to sit with her, trying to quiet her till the Doctor came back. That wasn't till nearly two in the morning, when he reached home, dead beat, saying he'd come round the turnpike from the Riven Rock Road and seen no sign of either Sylvia or Jack Reddy. ”

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