Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... XI It was Johnny who brought to Beth the news of Angela Ann's disappearance. He came over to Maxwell Street before breakfast on a Tuesday morning in mid-December, and asked to speak to Beth "private." His agitation was so evident that at once she scented something beyond the ordinary run of tragedy in the Casey family; and setting down the coffee-pot, she withdrew to the dark hall outside. Here Johnny told her, in scared whispers, that Angela Ann had not been home all night; that his mother was "'most crazy"; and that she insisted the search for Angela should be carried on without letting any of the neighbors know she was gone. As soon as she could swallow a cup of coffee -- and the depth of woe communicated to Johnny by his mother was measurable in his refusal to come in out of the hall or even to take a cup of coffee if handed out to him there -- Beth went to the stricken household on Henry Street. They were all in the kitchen, of course, and every face except baby Annie's was pallid with fright and streaked with tears. Talking in hushed tones, so that by no chance might the Rubovitzes or the new Irish tenants upstairs overhear, Mary told of her anxiousness as the evening wore on and Angela did not come; of how she had tried not to worry but to assure herself that Angela was "workin' late"; of how she had sat up for her girl, after the others were gone to bed; of how, as it wore on to midnight and past, she had grown sicker and sicker with fear; of how she had gone, time and again, to the corner and waited for a car to come by, thinking it might bring her; and of how she had sat through the long, slow morning hours of her vigil, until the others of the household woke, thinking, thinking what to do. The first thing that could be done, ...
