Those Waho Walk in Darkness

Excerpt from Those Who Walk in Darkness

Figuratively speaking, there are three kinds of darkness: the darkness of ignorance, the darkness of necessity, and the darkness of choice. There may be other varieties, of course; but these are the three which generally enshroud the lives of dwellers in New York.

Sometimes those who knock about in these three kinds of darkness run into each other with queer results. Such contacts are often romantic. Very easily they may be tragic. But, in no case, perhaps, are they to be taken too seriously. Sooner or later the darkness breaks, the light rushes in.

And, in any event, they merely show that in New York, as elsewhere in the world, Joy and Sorrow continue to play the ancient game of Blind-Man's Buff.

Every now and then the landlady of Alec Breen's place of residence would pause in the midst of what she was doing and peer out into the darksome hall. She was a mysterious old creature, flabby and unkempt. The fact that there was a glass panel in her door might have heightened the suggestion that she was some sort of a queer and uncouth fish looking through the side of a dusky aquarium.

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