. She remained
by the door until the walls of the city swallowed the bobbing lantern. ‘Again you seek to interfere in my affairs?’
‘I did warn you I had every intention of doing so,’ said Gerald. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. “Women would—they DO have far more power than they think, as influences,
as inspirations. She addressed him in a tone of puzzlement. Immediately beneath the pulpit stood a large circular pew where malefactors
under sentence of death sat to hear the condemned sermon delivered to them,
and where they formed a public spectacle to the crowds, which curiosity
generally attracted on those occasions. I’ve no name for it yet. The strong potation he had taken, combined with fatigue and anxiety he
had previously undergone, made him oversleep himself, and when he awoke it
was just beginning to grow light. It was his redemption, his ticket out of hell—that blue-serge coat. I set myself to find employment. He then stamped upon the hand on
the lower bannister, until that also relaxed its gripe. Had he not said so? Not that she wished him to
marry her. "Good-b'ye!" And with a
cordial shake of the hand he took his departure.
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