The Hindered Hand

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ation that, whether waking or sleeping, Tiara was constantly in his thoughts that night. And when turning his face toward the window the following morning he saw streaks of golden

e street acting as though he was sketching his (Ensal's) home. Feeling that he was warranted in having as much interest in the man as the man seemed to have in that which pertained to him, Ensal walk

med to indicate that he was just going into or emerging from a hard spell of sickness. His hat was a faded brown derby and his suit of clothes was of a tough, coarse fibre and much worn. Standing by him on the sidewalk was what appeared to be a much battered drummer's ca

an alliance which would at once afford Tiara an entrance into the social life of the best Negro circles.

o much

d into the face of his

ing fast?"

atch them as you have given me, why they will be saved all right. Really a person who didn't know would have tho

from New York, a Miss Merlow, Tiara Merlow, is in the city. I wish you

exceedingly active. Beneath this apparently simpl

n citizen, but their methods were opposite. They intuitively assumed, it seemed, opposite sides on every question that arose pertaining to the race, and championed their respe

he determining of his racial affinity he would have chosen membership in the Negro race. Earl accepted the fact of his connection with

ed the presence of the Negro on the earth in the final wind up of things, in full possession of all the advantages that time and progress promise. Earl

asset in all future reckonings. While thoroughly approving of the Negro's protection of the women and children of the whites from violence, Earl was sorry that the thousand torches which Grady said woul

ully convinced within himself that all of Ensal's hopes of a satisfactory, peaceful adjustment of matters were to be dashed to the ground, and knowing how thoroughly Ensal's soul was committed to the adva

mily life might add to his conservatism. This accounts for the fact that Ensal's simple i

Earl slowly, almost as m

e could have told him the char

shoulders. The hair on the front part of her head was allowed to come forward, but not enough to forbid glimpses of a well rounded, beautiful forehead. As she stood there, symmetrical in form, just large and tall enough to be commanding in appe

awned upon him to his great astonishment that he was face to face wit

y was soon dislodged from his mind by one of far more interest to him, to wit: "Is it not likely that I may utilize this

it was evident to Ensal that he was, for some cause, ill at ease. Tiara and Ens

of the proceedings, but when he is looking for a spot at which to le

through the night, while Earl called upon Leroy Crutcher and engage

Leroy Crutcher, this placing of a surveillance, as

e me an outlaw among my kind. Rubbish aside, am I not as much of an Anglo-Saxon as any of them? Does not my soul respond to

mn and sometimes an aw