"
"Iss, missis," grinned the black. "
"Nonsense!" cried Wood; "while there's life there's hope. Not the most stringent search, conducted all
morning, turned up one solitary sheet. Her eyes glistened in the darkness—for light was only
admitted through a small grated window—like flames, and, as she fixed them on
him, their glances seemed to penetrate his very soul. ’
‘It could hardly be less so,’ said Mrs Sindlesham tartly. Perhaps this was the real turning point: the hour in which the disordered mind
began permanently to readjust itself. The person caught hold of his arm, and, in spite of his
efforts to disengage himself, detained him. ‘Go on, Gerald. All
the rest of his existence was subordinate to this pursuit; he lived for it, worked
for it, kept himself in training for it. But now it’s beads by the cask—like the hold
of a West African trader. Then perhaps I shall
send for him if he has not forgotten. As he returned to the table, he put his
finger to his nose; and, though he said nothing, he thought he had a much better
chance of winning his wager. ”
She glanced at Brendon, who stood by her side, tall and threatening. She had been fighting down this thought for
days: that Hoddy did not care, that he did not love her, that he had mistaken a
vagary of the mind for a substance, and now regretted what he had done—
married a girl who was not his equal in anything. "Many thanks, Sir," replied Thornhill, with freezing politeness; "but Id not
require assistance.
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