Her eyes were wide and bright. Once, both Ruth and Spurlock accompanied McClintock far south, to an island of blacks; and Spurlock had his first experience with the coconut dance and the booming of wooden tom-toms. " "Do not distress him, dear father," said Winifred; "he suffers deeply. He wondered if these abnormal mental activities presaged illness. Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality, the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the intended effect. “The very question shows your ignorance,” he declared. 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. Within ten minutes he had read much more than had greeted his eye. She did not think for one moment what interpretation he might put upon the word “lover. . There was once a philanthropist who dressed with shameful shabbiness and carried pearls in his pocket. The affair passed at one leap from a spree to a nightmare of violence and disgust. He hung precariously on the ragged edge, but he hung there. " "Very well, sir. In the pause a door could be heard opening and closing on the landing up-stairs.
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