She was on the rim of civilization, entering, as Spurlock
was on the rim, preparing to make his exit. He was ready
to seed his legacy, and you were a pawn to be moved out
of the way. Plain, wide-mouthed, freckled, and
ugly, she was an instantly jealous creature, her saving
grace that she took no pains to mask her extreme dislike
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of petite, pretty girls. They joined the rabble of aspiring James Deans in torn
jeans and bomber jackets and girls with Clairol black hair
smoking clove cigarettes. "He'll not trouble you on the liquor side, Mac. ”
“It seems to me that much of a woman’s difficulties are economic. I’ve had the rarest luck and fallen on my
feet. It is the horse of the priest, you understand, and—and he does not know
that I have borrowed it. "
"But a man may love his wife!" cried Spurlock, utterly bewildered. "
But seeing that no notice was taken of the retort, he drew a little aside, and
folded his arms, muttering, "This whim will soon be over. ‘Why does this person say you are
mad?’
‘Because I am risking having my head blown off,’ Gerald answered cheerfully. "
"My confessor!" ejaculated the knight, in the extremity of surprise; "has he
betrayed his sacred trust?"
"He has," replied the other, grinning; "and this will be a caution to you in future,
how you confide a secret of consequence to a priest.
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