”
“But how? It has only been a few days!”
“She’s not even here. There was a huge desk of heavily carved ebony at one end, and at the centre, a
couple of straight-backed chairs stood before a great fireplace at the outer wall,
flanked by two bookshelves with casement windows above. 225
“Sebastianus. His appetite was perfectly Gargantuan. The moment he was out in the hall, Ruth sat up
hugging and rocking her body in delight. “Suppose I chuck it,” she remarked, standing with the mauve slip in her hand
—“suppose I chuck it, and surrender and go home! Perhaps, after all, Roddy was
right!
“Father keeps opening the door and shutting it, but a time will come—
“I could still go home!”
She held Ramage’s check as if to tear it across. ”
“For example?”
“Your dyed hair. ” Sebastian drove on. ‘I know what it means, numbskull! Didn’t
spend years in the confounded country without picking up some of their infernal
tongue. "
"I tell e'e what, John Dump," said the other fellow, who had hitherto preserved
silence, "I don't know whether you talkin' o' Jack Sheppard has put him into my
head or not; but I once had him pointed out to me, and if that were him as I seed
then, he's just now ridden past us, and put up at the Six Bells.
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