Presently he
became filled with astonishment over the singular fact that Ruth was eluding him
in fancy as well as in reality. You certainly have not
shown much desire for my society, have you?”
“You have been wrapped up in your politics,” she murmured. “I heard the other day that she’d been
taken in by some cad of a fellow who was cutting a great dash in Paris,
personating Meysey Hill, the great railway man. It was just a shabby, stupid, furtive business that
began between us. But I am not worthy to be any man's wife
—far less his wife. A sea voyage under sail will be the making of
him. She caught her finger in the lock and had to ask him to
help pry it out. "
"So it seems," observed the woollen-draper, "and for every one else, too. A hollow feeling opened up inside her, and she felt her
heartbeat quicken. This was some satisfaction to the poor fellow, who was dreadfully frightened, as
indeed he might well be, it being the opinion of the jailers and others who
afterwards examined the place, that Jack had accomplished, single-handed, in a
few hours, and, as far as it could be ascertained, with imperfect implements,
what it would have taken half a dozen men several days, provided with proper
tools, to effect.
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