Spurlock stared at Ruth across the rim of his bowl. A new restlessness seemed to have stolen in upon her. " "What right have you to suppose this, Sir?" demanded Trenchard, sternly. ’ She pronounced it with a French inflexion, but Gerald understood her to mean the English name he knew. Poor soul! she nearly died when she heard he had robbed his master; and it might have been well if she had done so, for she never afterwards recovered her reason. But I'll take care of her bill, if worst comes to worst. ” “Yeah, I think she hates you, hon. Not even for Ruth could he do such a beastly thing. All this torrent of misleading, spurious stuff that pours from the press. Fixing a ferocious and exulting look upon Jack Sheppard, he exclaimed. His most eager inquiries and most lavish bribes could gain no further information than that she had left for England, and that her address was—London. ‘Do you tell me that my disreputable son had the infernal insolence to pass you off as that whoring Frenchwoman’s daughter?’ His answer was in their faces. ‘Are you going to come quietly, mademoiselle?’ he demanded with grim determination. The wounded man had descended the bridge, and dashed himself against the door beyond it; but, finding it impossible to force his way further, he turned to confront his assailants. 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.
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