He embraced her small body in his arms, kissing her forehead over and over. ‘Brung the lantern, I did, and opened the door again in case you was ready. The man’s passion was infectious. Capes was inclined to support Miss Klegg until Miss Garvice cornered him by quoting him against himself, and citing a recent paper in the Nineteenth Century, in which, following Atkinson, he had made a vigorous and damaging attack on Lester Ward’s case for the primitive matriarchate and the predominant importance of the female throughout the animal kingdom. “This is all very well,” she said, “but two out of the three are rank deserters— and if the papers tell the truth the third is as bad. Or, after all, is it worth while? The Channel is a little broader than the Boulevards— but one crosses it sometimes. ’ Gosse smiled and Melusine read triumph there. “He will probably make a statement to-night. " "Decidedly so," replied Edgeworth Bess; "and I'll take this opportunity, while Jack's back is turned,—for he's grown so strangely particular,—of easing him of his snuff-box. “You must tell me the truth, please. Before his departure, he gave his assistant a glove. 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. It would be very good to be Capes’ friend. If Martha knew all, she would certainly die of shock. m.
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