He uttered one word over and over, monotonously:
"Fool! … Fool!"
But invariably the touch of Ruth's hand quieted him, and his head would cease to
roll from side to side. ‘I cannot possibly shoot a lady, you know. He would require things of her, and she would be
passionately concerned to meet his requirements. I learned the trick of the place from one Paul Groves, who used to live
here, and who contrived the machine. Anyway, I only smoke
occasionally. ‘It
were that there major, miss. He was a
thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in
any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always
been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. Her foster
father had been outside for most of the morning, working
on trimming the maple trees and mowing the lawn. So I ran away, blindly, knowing nothing of the world outside. "But if he had not
fired that shot, he might have saved Thames, and possessed himself of papers
which would have established his birth, and his right to the estates of the
Trenchard family. She laughed softly, and leaned
across the table. "
So saying, she retired, and Jack entered the cell.
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