”
“Remember that you are young still, and fond of admiration,” Anna said. What lends a tragic mockery to all these tender traps of hers was that she
was within lawful bounds. Last time I left home I felt as hard as nails. I told
you no good would come of it. "
"I'll give you something better worth keeping," she answered, detaching the
ornament from her neck, and presenting it to him; "this contains a lock of my
hair, and may remind you sometimes of your little sister. "Release your prisoner," continued Wood, "or the window is opened. Her features are the same, yet the change has written its mark into her
face. Can't I make you see?"
"But I'm telling you Ruth loves you. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. Her time and
effort was justly rewarded, because the hard cold facts she
knew about neighborhood intrigues were better than
fictional soap operas. “Do something!”
But he laid by his prey, half-watching the fight,
gorging on the woman he had caught that had been
meant for Rhea and her child. m. ”
An immense gulf seemed to open between father and daughter as he said these
words. Then he went on:
“—and, indeed, to most of the established things in life is, frankly,
unsatisfactory.
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