Striking out his foot, he knocked half a dozen
teeth down the janizary's throat; and, seconding the kick with a blow on the head
from the butt-end of the pistol, stretched him, senseless and bleeding on the
ground. "
"Not quite," rejoined the thief-taker, significantly. “Too greasy for me. Things
haven't gone quite as smoothly as I anticipated; but they might have been worse. She stole the opportunity to peer at his departing
figure from the closed curtains of the front room
window, his shoulders slumped forward, his posture and
his ego slightly deflated. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. She had a horrible glimpse of the once
nice little old lady being also borne stationward, still faintly battling and very
muddy—one lock of grayish hair straggling over her neck, her face scared,
white, but triumphant. Go up and get
my daughter so we can have some homemade pie. "Won't be under an obligation.
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