He had very nearly cleared the board, when a knock was heard below, and descending at the summons, he found his two janizaries. “I’d give anything,” he remarked, “to see our little Vee happily and comfortably married. Her eyes followed him. " "Force the door," said Thames, "or you will be too late. Spurlock relaxed, suddenly, and sank deeply into his pillows. ’ ‘Yes, but in fact you’ve offered me far more entertainment than any French spy could have done. The Supper at Mr. She remained standing stiffly, unable even to move. ” “That is why they hissed me, then?” “Of course. You care for me a little, I know. " By this time, the chair had been brought into the Lodge. 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. He was conscious of a peculiar pleasure in sitting there and thinking of those few hours which already were becoming to assume a definite importance in his mind—a place curiously apart from those dry-as-dust images which had become the gods of his prosaic life. Clotilde rushed out of the house, carrying her boy and tugging her girl by the ear. A few words passed between him and the thief-taker as the latter came up; after which, all the party—with the exception of Quilt, who was left on shore —embarked within the wherry, which was pushed from the strand and rowed swiftly along the stream—for the tide was in its favour—by a couple of watermen.
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