"Why?
Because I love her! Because I loved her at the start, but was too big a fool to
know it!"
His own astonishment was quite equal to McClintock's. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard
sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and
addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. About nine o'clock, an
immense mob collected before the Lodge at Newgate. Conceiving the opportunity too favourable to be lost, Jack sprang suddenly over
the hedge, and before the man, who was floundering on the ground with one foot
in the stirrup, could extricate himself from his embarrassing position, secured his
pistols, which he drew from the holsters, and held them to his head. He never finished his sentence. I went off to round up his wife. She stood up before him, smiling faintly. A vast relief filled Spurlock's heart as he
decided to tell this man everything which related to Ruth. I
have suspected him of possessing a skeleton key to my apartments. ‘How do you know?’
‘Exactly,’ pounced Roding bitterly. For
awhile he watched the revolving light on Copeley's. Was there anything he could do!
"No, Hoddy; nothing. ’
The full story—or as much as Gerald knew—of Valade’s machinations
shocked the old lady so much that she was obliged to recruit her strength with a
refill from the Madeira decanter.
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