" Ruth had read from page to page in "The Child's Garden of Verse,"
generally unfamiliar to the admirers of Stevenson. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and
simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have
been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or
else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of
personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought,
would have made. Between herself and yonder
evil mind she had the strongest buckler God could give—love. He will be hanged—hanged—hanged. Why had she married him, off-hand, like that? She did
not love him, or he knew nothing of love signs. They struck her as cold and
indifferent. ”
Part 9
She was sitting brooding over her fire about ten o’clock that night when a
sealed and registered envelope was brought up to her. A small voice greeted her, hissing. But what he could do or might do she could
not imagine. How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. Such was the condition of his mind that the danger
exhilarated rather than depressed him. I’m starving. "But they will find the
evidences of slaughter in the other room,—the table upset,—the bloody cloth,—
the dead man's sword,—the money,—and my memorandum, which I forgot to
remove. A vast indifference settled down upon him.
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