Checking an ominous cough, that, ever and
anon, convulsed her lungs, the poor woman addressed a few parting words to her
companion, who lingered at the doorway as if he had something on his mind,
which he did not very well know how to communicate. She loved the market, the horses
trotting about, the bishops forced to be on the same road
with old washer-women, the fools begging for a Florin or
a ducat. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of
bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not
care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to
the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. You certainly had to hand it to these Chinks. "
"You have extradition papers?"
"What sort of a detective do you think I am?" countered O'Higgins. The man had favoured him with
a brief nod, but the girl had gone so far as to offer a tiny smile, and a look under
her lashes with which not even Gerald, for all his scant interest in female society,
could fail to be familiar. It was enough that she witnessed it and could not go
to him. "Fool!" he cried, "do you think I wouldn't have secured you before this if I hadn't
some motive for my forbearance?"
"And that motive is fear," replied Jack contemptuously. "Can you not love him?"
"Love him!" echoed the widow. "
"That is to say, you wish you had let me die?"
"That was the thought. But threats and entreaties—even promises were ineffectual; and
the unlucky captive, after exhausting his powers of persuasion, was compelled to
give up the point.
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