My janizaries are without. Really they are the most beautiful things in the world. I didn’t think—I don’t know what I thought. The place was crowded, and the people about her were almost equally made up of very goodlooking and enthusiastic young people and a great variety of Goopes-like types. And now the fiend Gosse had taken even that away from her. ’ ‘He had no further need of them,’ Gosse said and his laugh sounded heartless to Melusine. ‘The outcome, I think, is in very little doubt. 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. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. He was carelessly dressed, and there were marks of unrest upon his features. Lucy stepped inside. "Oh God! how fearfully my father is avenged!" "True," replied Jack, sternly; "but we have our uncle to avenge. Moored to the steps, several wherries were dancing in the rushing current, as if impatient of restraint.
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