The following morning found him in the doctor's waiting room, a black cigar
turning unlighted in his teeth. Alarmed by these prognostications of a storm, and feeling too much exhausted
from his late severe treatment to proceed further on foot, Wood endeavoured to
find a tavern where he might warm and otherwise refresh himself. ‘En tout cas, it is
not up at all, but down. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “Do you think that it is kind of you, Miss Pellissier,” he said, almost roughly, “to
ignore your friends so? In your heart you know quite well that you could pay
Sydney or me no greater compliment than to give us just a little of your
confidence. He was into
the passage in time to see her slip into another chamber at the end. Can it ever be so good again?”
Ann Veronica put out a firm hand and squeezed his arm. I'm thinking that the Wastrel was one day a celebrated
professional; and the women were partly the cause of his fall. It was decrepit and too large. Concealed among the trees that edged the estate grounds, the watchers
paused. Your pets are gone. He led
her unerringly, pushing her down the narrow stairway that had been the servants’
access to the upper floors, and thence through a small door that led into the
chapel.
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