"
"'No doubt,'" said Wood, who had again turned over the leaves of the sacred
volume—', "no doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he escaped the seas,
yet vengeance suffereth not to live'. A light was visible in the garret,
feebly struggling through the damp atmosphere, for the night was raw and
overcast. Miss Miniver thought that there was no true sincerity except in love, and
appealed to Ann Veronica, but the young man in the orange tie went on to
declare that it was quite possible to be sincerely in love with two people at the
same time, although perhaps on different planes with each individual, and
deceiving them both. ‘He don’t mean you no
harm. "And had you been the worst scoundrel unhung, I'd have seen to it that you had
the same care, the same chance. To an unthinking mind the episode would be ordinary, trivial; but to the doctor,
who had had plenty of time to think during his sojourn in China, it was basic of
the child's unhappiness. She felt surges of
longing escape every corner of her flesh. If only this child were his:
what good times they would have together! The thought passed on, but it left a
little ache in his heart. Once, both Ruth and Spurlock accompanied McClintock
far south, to an island of blacks; and Spurlock had his first experience with the
coconut dance and the booming of wooden tom-toms. Only her ungloved fingers, and the arms in their long tight sleeves as
she held the heavy gun aloft, bore any sign of stiffness. He sat down on the sill of the open window, folded his arms,
and stared straight before him for a long time over the wilderness of tiles and
chimney-pots into a sky that was blue and empty. "What has delayed you?" demanded the knight impatiently. ‘Playing games to tease me, that’s all he can think of doing.
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