“What has he to do with it?”
“He was your sister’s master—her friend. This hand
consigned him to destruction, but another was stretched forth to save him. ’
But she reckoned without the fellow Trodger. ”
“You would marry a divorcée?” she asked. That was the
wonder of these stories; one lived in them. All this—
the island and its affairs—was an old story; but her own peculiar distaste had
vanished to a point imperceptible, for she was seeing the island through her
husband's eyes, as in the future she would see all things. She was certain he would
hear, sleeping in the nearby castle. ’
She fairly pushed at Gerald, who grinned and gave in, moving back to the still
open door. For what could be more ironical
than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber?
The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and
wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail. He lifted her from the floor. The Yale spirit! Ah Cum smiled whimsically. ’
She turned and swept away from him, pacing the length of the room to the
window Gerald had unshuttered. The ambitions of his life, and they were many, seemed to
lie far away, broken up dreams in some outside world where the way was rough
and the sky always grey. Yet the thing hidden within her called and called. She leaped suddenly at a desperate resolution, and in one moment had made it
into a new self.
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