“The doctor has asked me to give them my
reasons—for shooting myself. There came to O'Higgins the discouraging knowledge that upon the heels of a
wonderful chase—blindman's buff in the dark—would come a stretch of dull
inaction. ‘Never trust a gun in female hands,’ grumbled Hilary, dropping the nun’s habit
and backing to join his friend. Some day, when the rewards of literature permit the arduous research
required, the Campaign of the Women will find its Carlyle, and the particulars of
that marvellous series of exploits by which Miss Brett and her colleagues nagged
the whole Western world into the discussion of women’s position become the
material for the most delightful and amazing descriptions. “Second class,” said some one, but first and second were all alike to her. ‘The credentials, milor’,’ he ventured. What'll you be doing?"
"What can I do?" asked Spurlock, raising his haggard face. ’
Oh, do they? No kitchen service? No feeding of pigs? It was evident that this
woman knew nothing of nuns, if a certain young lady’s artless reminiscences
were anything to go by. ”
“Act two,” she continued. It surprised her she hadn’t thought of
it before! She tried to explain that she was going to pay him forty pounds
without fail next week. Here was the place behind the shed
where she had used to hide from Roddy’s persecutions, and here the border of
herbaceous perennials under whose stems was fairyland. “She has lost something,” he declared, “something which brought the men in
crowds around the stage at the ‘Ambassador’s.
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