It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to be turned to account hereafter. ] CHAPTER VIII Slowly Ruth entered her own room. Every one took him for the millionaire, and he had lost his head about me. " "You read those yarns?" Spurlock's head came about, and there was eagerness in his eyes. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. There had been disappointments and humiliations, and although she hated to admit it even to herself, she was in desperate straits. By this time Capes’ hair had bleached nearly white, and his skin had become a skin of red copper shot with gold. And at the sight something leaped within her. If you’ll forgive my saying that, and implying what goes with it.
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