But at the beginning of the affray, when he
thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his
absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the
engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had
another object in view. All the jailers declared it utterly
impossible he could have accomplished his astonishing task unaided; but who
had lent him assistance was a question they were unable to answer. That night in his den he smoked many pipes. ‘Did she call you that?’ asked Lucilla, amused. "One of us has got to die," he panted. ‘Then it is that you will have pity? Here we have
come, we poor, for aid. It was in another world from that in which men will die for
a kiss, and touching hands lights fires that burn up lives—the world of romance,
the world of passionately beautiful things. There are way-stations—even
terminals. You will go out at once, if you please. He
was—a millionaire. "
"Well, it's mighty fine of you to break your journey in this fashion—for someone
you don't know, a passer-by. I
need not counsel you to avoid those fatal courses which have placed you in such
fearful jeopardy.
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