”
He stood looking at the preparations before them with an unusual preoccupation
of manner, then roused himself to take her jacket, a little awkwardly, and hand it
to the waiter who hung it in the corner of the room. Turning, she heaved at the bottom door and slammed it in his face just
as he came leaping forward to grab her. ’
‘You’re going?’ asked his friend, and the note of relief was marked. Then she looked up the sweep of pine-trees to the towering sunlit cliffs and
the high heaven above and then back to his face. It’s John. ’
Gerald looked round. She had never
thought of him at all in that way before. The poor child! What frightful things she must have seen on that island of hers!
The noise of crashing glass caused a diversion; and Ruth turned gratefully
toward the sound. We'll get this chap on his feet if only to learn what the
trouble is. ”
He called for a hansom. Notwithstanding the heat of the season,—which was not,
however, found particularly inconvenient in this subterranean region,—a large
heaped-up fire blazed ruddily in one corner, and lighted up a circle of as
villanous countenances as ever flame shone upon. She went to the post-office and drew out and sent off her money to Ramage.
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