Lawyer Harper knew the world--or thought he did.
Next day the whole town was thrown into a hubbub. Word had gone out
through every medium possible to so small a place, that Alfred Hazen,
Georgian's long-lost brother, was going to dare Death Eddy in a final
attempt to recover his sister's body.
PART IV
The Man of Mystery
CHAPTER XXV
DEATH EDDY
It was a gray day, chill and ominous. As the three most interested in the
event came together on the road facing the point from which Hazen had
decided to make his desperate plunge, the dreariness of the scene was
reflected in the troubled eye of the lawyer and that of the still more
profoundly affected Ransom. Only Hazen gazed unmoved. Perhaps because
the spot was no new one to him, perhaps because an unsympathetic sky,
a stretch of rock, the swirl of churning waters without any of the
lightness and color which glancing sunlight gives, meant for him but one
thing--the thing upon which he had fixed his mind, his soul.
The rocky formation into which the stream ran at this point as into a
pocket, revealed itself in the bald outlines of the point which, curving
half-way upon itself, held in its cold embrace the unseen vortex. One
tree, and one only, disturbed the sky line. Stark and twisted into an
unusual shape from the steady blowing of the prevalent east winds, it
imprinted itself at once upon the eye and unconsciously upon the
imagination.
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