“Perhaps for myself I do
not mind, but this man is sure to find out some day, and he will not like having
been deceived. They’re just all men, and no one is
safe from scandal. He told me that he was a
millionaire. "
"For a bit of kindness?" Ruth was plainly bewildered. Never! Perhaps some day,
quite soon, she might regret that breakfast-room. ' He muttered it continually. A. The old lady clearly read his state of mind, for the apparently irrepressible
dimple peeped out. The worst was over now. I believed I was strong enough to go on in silence; but I'm
human like everybody else. Henceforth, I utterly throw off the yoke you
have laid upon me. "
"I don't care for that," replied Jack. A forgotten island beyond the ship
lanes, where that grim Hand would falter and move blindly in its search for him!
From what he had read, there wouldn't be much to do; and in the idle hours he
could write. ”
He was silent for some moments. Beyond was a chaise longue, covered with cushions and
shawls laid anyhow across it, together with a discarded tapestry in the making,
and a scattering of woollen threads about it.
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