lamation upon her lips; but Jadwin, by the dim light of the carriage
lanterns, was studying a railroad folder.

All at once, intuitively, Laura turned in her place, and raising the
flap that covered the little window at the back of the carriage, looked
behind. On either side of the vista in converging lines stretched the
tall office buildings, lights burning in a few of their windows, even
yet. Over the end of the street the lead-coloured sky was broken by a
pale faint haze of light, and silhouetted against this rose a sombre
mass, unbroken by any glimmer, rearing a black and formidable facade
against the blur of the sky behind it.

And this was the last impression of the part of her life that that day
brought to a close; the tall gray office buildings, the murk of rain,
the haze of light in the heavens, and raised against it, the pile of
the Board of Trade building, black, monolithic, crouching on its
foundations like a monstrous sphinx with blind eyes, silent,
grave--crouching there without a sound, without sign of life, under the
night and the drifting veil of rain.

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