Ann Veronica forgot him as soon as she was through the gate, and her face
resumed its expression of stern preoccupation. And this utter stranger … loved him! He had no reason
to doubt McClintock's statement; the Scot had solved the riddle why Ruth
Enschede had married Howard Spurlock. “Now look here, Veronica, let us be plain with each
other. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. "Now, if as I suspect,—from the documents just placed in your possession,—Sir
Rowland meditates doing you justice after his departure, it is possible his
intentions may be frustrated by the machinations of Wild, whose interest is
obviously to prevent such an occurrence, unless we can surprise them together,
and, by proving to Sir Rowland that we possess the power of compelling a
restitution of your rights, force the other treacherous villain into compliance. "Is it wrong, then, to surrender to good
impulses?"
"In the present instance, yes. "Dawn Pearl!… come here!"
She moved to the side of the bed. ‘On the contrary,’ Gerald argued, frowning. "You'd have hit it off better if you'd called
her The Sow.
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