No, no! Not
now!"
Ruth turned abruptly and walked toward the bungalow, mounted the veranda
steps, and vanished within. She produced a handkerchief, and with one
sweep of this and a simultaneous gulp had abolished her fit of weeping. “Thanks, Mister McCloskey. She was a much lighter and more frivolous person, very
charming and companionable—but with a difference—a great difference. ” He said. ” Michelle said. I love you all the more for the streak of
sheer devil in you. Better get back
now! You be careful. If you'd read your husband's dying
speech, you'd know that he laid his death at Jonathan's door,—and with reason
too, as I can testify. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. ”
“Do you think he’ll come after you?”
“Why would he do that? It has been three hundred
239
years. Immediately he grasped the fact that there was drama here, probably the old
drama of the fugitive.
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