Don't suppose," she
added, with a scornful glance at her helpmate, "that I would pay him the
compliment of thinking he could possibly be the father of such a boy as you. In privacy
he read and reread it a dozen times, and eventually destroyed it by fire. ”
He resumed, after a mouthful: “Here is a girl of sixteen or seventeen,
seventeen and a half to be exact, running about, as one might say, in London. "All right," replied Sheppard, with affected indifference. I had a vague sort of idea that this was the region where
one finds apartments, so I told my cabman to drive in this direction while I sat
inside his vehicle and endeavoured to form a plan of campaign. Who was he to tread on her dreams? She had heroworshipped an unscrupulous adventurer, who had not hesitated to impose on her
youth and her ignorance. If ever
the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then
understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances.
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