“What made
you think” he said, abruptly, with the gleam of avidity in his face, “that love
makes people happy?”
“I know it must. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. ’
‘That wasn’t my fault. As he crossed the cellar,
he passed so near to Jack who had concealed himself behind a piece of furniture
that he almost touched him. . She
must kill this man, or kill herself. Gerald grinned. There is a railroad. Let me lend you some money. The house was eerily silent, which alerted her to the
idea that someone might be listening. A vein of conviction
mingled with his burlesque. Whether the turnkey entertained any suspicion of the old man, Jack could not
tell, but that night he was more than usually rigorous in his search; and having
carefully examined the prisoners and finding nothing to excite his suspicions, he
departed tolerably satisfied. Once in the room, the door locked, the sense of loneliness had dropped away
from her as the mists used to drop away from the mountain in the morning.
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