" "Keep it," said Trenchard, haughtily. He had made it even easier by walking up the steps instead of taking the elevator. “I have loved you,” he was saying, “ever since you sat on that gate and talked. ‘I know that, miss. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?" For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. The world, perhaps, will be educated out of its idea of fixed standards. Then, her body still tense with the atoms of anger, she sat down upon the edge of the bed and rocked from side to side. The prospect of the gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. At last he could bear it no longer. Wouldn't take my advice. How could she tell him what indeed already began to puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that she had grabbed a bait. He spent a good deal more money and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a beautiful and dignified manner. Proceeding along the wall, Jack reached the southern tower, over the battlements of which he clambered, and crossing it, dropped upon the roof of the gate. There was only one clean spot in the picture—the ship's wash (all white) that fluttered on a line stretched between the two masts.
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