You will do as I say, or—’
‘Hoy!’ called Trodger from down the hall. ‘How fascinating. But that other world, in spite of her resolute exclusion of it, was always
looking round corners and peeping through chinks and crannies, and rustling and
raiding into the order in which she chose to live, shining out of pictures at her,
echoing in lyrics and music; it invaded her dreams, it wrote up broken and
enigmatical sentences upon the passage walls of her mind. I felt—I felt living in a masked world. Her hair was the one part of her that did not
exude the air of wealth. *****
The general office was an extension of the west wing of the McClintock
bungalow. "Any price was better than your head. "
"You would purchase it at the price of your head," replied Jonathan, knitting his
brows. "
"Confidentially, I'm assured that he has another. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. "Why came
she here?"
"She could not resist the hand of fate which drew her hither," replied Sir Cecil,
mournfully. "What's that to you?" demanded Jonathan, gruffly. “I wish you would not do it. You know nothing of life, nothing of its dangers, nothing of its possibilities. But he might have crept along the left side of the pier, and beneath
the further arch; whereas, Wood, as we have seen, took his course upon the right.
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