Courtlaw found himself ushered without questions into Annabel’s long low drawing-room, fragrant with flowers and somewhat to his surprise, crowded with guests. Spurlock bent his head to the rail. To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. “You ought at once—you ought at once to have told her that. " At the mention of the latter occurrence, a dark cloud gathered upon the stranger's brow. "Something more than whisky did that. “I throw it out in passing,” he said. Mr. McClintock will be tuning up the piano to-day. ” 227 “Your family?” “She was my first wife, and because she turned me, she was like a mother to me. I went off to round up his wife. CHAPTER XXIV Spurlock's novel was a tale of regeneration. Understand me. ’ The shift threw Melusine’s attention off the errant major for the moment.
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