’
‘Oh, is he?’ Gerald said grimly. "He said, by way of comfort, I suppose, after the fright he gave me at first, that
the child would find a friend within twenty-four hours, who would stand by him
through life. I should be sorry if Shotbolt got the reward. Quite
soon, after we were married—it was just within a year—I formed a friendship
with the wife of a friend, a woman eight years older than myself. Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. Dese ere not schouts, as you faind, but jonkers on a vrolyk; and if dey'd
chanshed to keel de vrow Sheppard's pet lamb, dey'd have done her a servish, by
shaving it from dat unpleasant complaint, de hempen fever, with which its laatter
days are threatened, and of which its poor vader died. How could she tell him what indeed already began to
puzzle herself, why she had borrowed that money at all? The plain fact was that
she had grabbed a bait.
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