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. Many little things had contributed to that decision. There was enough contra-light to
render her ethereal. "There, he's as safe as Jack Sheppard in the Condemned Hould," laughed the
man. “That’s HIM,” said Ann Veronica,
in sound, idiomatic English. The crowd began to separate as it fell into the
theater. “Yes. Here and there, a building might be
seen with the doors and windows driven in, and all access to it prevented by the
heaps of bricks and tilesherds. The general
propositions of Socialism, for example, struck her as admirable, but she certainly
did not extend her admiration to any of its exponents. In the one he approached was gathered together a vast
assortment of weapons, each of which, as appeared from the ticket attached to it,
had been used as an instrument of destruction. He must be more or less of an age
with this man. At this moment, a coach passed them, and was instantly hailed by Thames. ”
“It’s too far for the ball to reach us,” said Miss Klegg. ”
Part 6
In the afternoon she resumed her search for apartments.
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