He HAD followed her! What had he followed her for? He must have followed her all the way from beyond Grosvenor Square. What would happen when next morning she returned to Morningside Park? He couldn’t turn her out of doors. " "Well then, to change it," replied Thames, gravely, "suppose I should be obliged to leave you. "Where can I hide myself?" he added, glancing round the room in search of a closet. And don't neglect my instructions this time. Lucy had baked the apple and pumpkin pies, carefully molding the flour crusts and adding extra teaspoonfuls of allspice and cinnamon while no one looked. He flung Ruth aside, careless whether she fell or not. Hugging them, they crept stealthily around the house, Major Alderley leading, and wasting—so his captain acidly commented—a deal of time checking the windows and doors. Wood obeyed. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. It had been brighter than the rest, for dawn light had come in through high unshuttered casements above the bookshelves. ’ Then she jammed her hat on her head all anyhow and ran from the room. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and blotched as though she had run through fire.
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