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THE WINDOW-GAZER
ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY
So in ye matere of Life's goodlie showe
Some buy what doth them plese.
While others stand withoute and gaze thereinne--
Your eare, good folk, for these!
--OLD ENGLISH RHYME.
THE
WINDOW-GAZER
BY
ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY
AUTHOR OF "MIST OF MORNING," "UP THE HILL AND OVER," "THE SHINING
SHIP," ETC.
THE WINDOW-GAZER
CHAPTER I
Professor Spence sat upon an upturned keg--and shivered. No one had
told him that there might be fog and he had not happened to think of
it for himself. Still, fog in a coast city at that time of the year
was not an unreasonable happening and the professor was a reasonable
man. It wasn't the fog he blamed so much as the swiftness of its
arrival. Fifteen minutes ago the world had been an ordinary world.
He had walked about in it freely, if somewhat irritably, following
certain vague directions of the hotel clerk as to the finding of
Johnston's wharf. He had found Johnston's wharf; extracted it neatly
from a very wilderness of wharves, a feat upon which Mr. Johnston,
making boats in a shed at the end of it, had complimented him
highly.
"There's terrible few as finds me just off," said Mr. Johnston.
"Hours it takes 'em sometimes, sometimes days.
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