Geraldine Bonner

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

The Girl at Central — Chapter IX (1915)

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“The Girl at Central — Chapter IX”, published in 1915, is a work by Geraldine Bonner. It explores elements such as Sylvia, Babbitts and auto.

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

“ The sky was bright with stars and by their light you could see the black patches of the woods and here and there a paler stretch where the land was bare and open. It was all shadowy and gloomy except where the windows shone out in bright orange squares. I pointed out to Babbitts where Sylvia's windows were, not a light in them; and then, at the end of the wing, four or five in a row that belonged to Mrs. Fowler's suite. Her sitting-room was one of them where Anne had told me she and the Doctor always sat in the evenings. ”

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

“ The room was empty but even so I had to whisper:
"Are they going to arrest the Doctor?"
"He's waiting," she whispered back.
"What do you make of it?"
"What I always have. I think the woman was Virginie. I think she took Sylvia's things and lit out on her own account."
"What does Mrs. Fowler say?"
"She's going to offer a reward for the murderer. That's her way of answering. This last seems to have roused her. She knows now it's going to be a fight for her husband's liberty, perhaps his life. She's employing Mills and some other detectives and she keeps in close touch with them." ”

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

“ IX THE finding of the gold purse established the fact that part, anyway, of the Doctor's story was true—the woman who had gone down to the junction and then disappeared had disappeared in his auto. Was she Sylvia Hesketh?
The general verdict was yes—Sylvia Hesketh, for some unknown reason, running away from her lover and her home. All the world knew now that she was wild and unstable, a girl that might take any whim into her head and act on the spur of the moment. ”

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

“ She was determined to get away with all her loot and took the bag and coat with her, but between the hurry and fear of the moment forgot the purse.
She wandered through the woods till she saw a small scattering of lights which she took for one of the branch line stations. When the dawn came she had lost some of her nerve and felt it was too risky to carry the extra things. So she hid them at the root of a tree, took off the hat, tying the veil over her head, and walked across the fields to the station. As it was Monday morning there were a lot of laborers, men and women, on the platform. ”

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

“ A walk after business hours should be the invariable practice of those whose work forbids exercise."
"Thank you for your interest," says I, very haughty, "but it's well to look at home before we search abroad. The man who spends all his time riding in autos at the expense of the Press would be better employed exercising his own limbs than directing those of others. ”

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

“ After putting it on she filled her bag with things from the bureau drawers, and just as she was leaving saw the gold mesh purse on the dresser and snatched it up.
All this was done like lightning and she thinks she left the house not more than twenty or twenty-five minutes after Sylvia. To catch the train she had to hurry and she ran up Maple Lane behind the hedge. She was nearing the village when she heard the whirr of an auto and through the hedge saw the two big headlights of a car, coming slowly down the Lane. ”

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

“ I'd heard him before and he had a most unnatural sort of patience about him, as if his spirit was broken forever taking messages off a wire.
"Say," says Babbitts, "I got a new lead—up country near Hines' place. I been there all morning. There's a farm up that way. Cresset's"—he spelled the name and the other one did his usual stunt—"Good people, years on the soil, self-respecting, stand high. Their house is about half a mile across woods and fields from the Wayside Arbor, lonely with a bad bit of road leading up from the pike. Do you hear?" ”

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