“In Paris our lives were far apart, and we
had seldom the same friends. "
"Oh, a shave and a clean suit will do a lot. . Spurlock was no longer a man before
this instinct; he was a child in trouble. On beholding the intruders, his fears
changed to exultation, and he uttered a roar of satisfaction as he glared at them,
which could only be likened to the cry of some savage denizen of the plains. Why should they be?
She and Ramage were friends, very good friends. “I do not lay claim,” he continued, “to any remarkable amount of insight, but it
is possible, is it not, that I have stumbled upon your present cause of distress. At length, about an hour before dawn on the second day—Sunday—having spent
the early part of the night in watching at the gates of the robbers' sanctuary, and
being almost exhausted from want of rest, she set out homewards. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours.
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