’
‘I’ve a good mind to leave the pair of you to it and take myself off,’ threatened
his junior, marching across the room and snatching up a decanter. "Hope to. There was a pint of champagne and a quart of mineral water (both taboo) at his
elbow. ’ She
stopped, for Jack was feebly laughing. “Why just take her limbs? Why not poison her, like
me?”
“Because, if you remember, she turned me into a
vampire. The idea of Ruth as a
talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea—
faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. ”
He came towards her with that in his face which filled her with blind terror. "
"You talk boldly," replied Wild. “Parmesan—take it away!”
He glanced at Ann Veronica’s face, and it seemed to him that she really was
exceptionally radiant. I’m
like a creature just wakened up. He had
something across his knees. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor
and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat
slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in
the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. "Very well," said Rachel, with a toss of her pretty head, "very well. The thought of
their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact—
disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. ]
THE RAGGED EDGE
BY HAROLD MACGRATH
AUTHOR OF DRUMS OF JEOPARDY, ETC.
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