”
“Do what?”
“Oh!—anything. His
attention drawn, the captain was easily able to make out the pretty features under
the feathered hat, and the same dark riding habit the fugitive had worn on that
first occasion at Remenham House. "
"So she may," returned Jack, brightening up; "it's a good idea. “Stop this—this humbugging,” he explained. "
"Aye!" was McClintock's inaudible affirmative. I told
her it was the end. Somewhere in the world would be his people, perhaps his mother; and it might
soften the bitterness, of the return to consciousness if he found a woman at his
bedside. I love some one else. There are times
when you make me feel a little thing at your feet—a young, silly, protected
thing. But I don’t
think she lays hold of one so. She told us
that it was a disguise. This light did not remain stationary, but could be seen at one moment
glimmering through the rents in the roof, and at another shining through the
cracks in the wall, or the broken panes of the casement. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. This is a case
either of suicide or murder.
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