He noticed the divided attention of the crowd; the
name of Senator Boompointer was upon every lip; he was nearly face to
face with that famous dispenser of place and preferment--this
second husband of Susy! An indescribable feeling--half cynical, half
fateful--came over him. He would not have been surprised to see Jim
Hooker join the throng, which now seemed to him to even dwarf the lonely
central figure that had so lately touched him! He wanted to escape it
all!
But his fate brought him to the entrance at the same moment that
Boompointer was leaving it, and that distinguished man brushed hastily
by him as a gorgeous carriage, drawn by two spirited horses, and driven
by a resplendent negro coachman, dashed up. It was the Boompointer
carriage.
A fashionably-dressed, pretty woman, who, in style, bearing, opulent
contentment, and ingenuous self-consciousness, was in perfect keeping
with the slight ostentation of the equipage, was its only occupant. As
Boompointer stepped into the vehicle, her blue eyes fell for an instant
on Brant. A happy, childlike pink flush came into her cheeks, and a
violet ray of recognition and mischief darted from her eyes to his. For
it was Susy.
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