first cross street and doubled back to the Lake Shore Drive. No one had come out at the front door; no one, so far as the evidence of the cross street went, appeared to have followed him from the rear. He walked away, still gazing back at the house.
His chief reason for staying at Beman's had been that he could expect to see Mrs. Markyn. There had been good food there too, and a nice place to sleep. But except for these things he had no very definite personal feeling over what he had heard. He had resented his relationship to Walter Markyn, because it interfered between him and Walter's wife. Wouldn't he ever see her any more? She would not, he thought, have the same anger against him as the others; perhaps he could wait where she took her walk, and she would talk with him, and perhaps kiss him, without feeling that he had to have anyone to take care of him.
He had in his pocket the five dollar bill which she had given him. He found a small store in which only a woman was waiting upon customers and got her to change it. The paper
