" "Keep in your own room, at all events," rejoined Kneebone. Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring it. You have only to look resolute and proceed upon your way. 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. They sat down, McClintock reaching for a lump of sugar which he began munching. ‘It must be painful. Do you want me, too?” “Yes,” she whispered foolishly, in the throes of rapture. “There is something to be said for the lady-like theory after all,” she admitted. The ruse succeeded almost beyond his expectation.
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