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She had been in the drawing-room for a few minutes before the gong had sounded, and had chattered gaily to every one. If there’s any one here whom you have not met I will make you acquainted with them after dinner. "Who knows but this key may open a golden lock one of these days?" And, picking it up, he thrust it into his pocket. 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. “You will go and see her,” he begged. Half an hour's labour, during which he was obliged more than once to pause to regain breath, sufficed to make a hole wide enough to allow a passage for his arm up to the elbow. The bed was hard beyond any experience of hers, the bed-clothes coarse and insufficient, the cell at once cold and stuffy. She had to resist an impulse of sheer terror, to run out after them and give in.
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