And now, let's see who'll
refuse the pledge. He brought home her first “meal”, a man who he
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claimed was a highwayman who had raped several women
and was destined for the hangman’s noose. The terror faded from her eyes. “Couldn’t we three go out and have some coffee
somewhere? The thought of that drawing-room paralyses me. "
"Your's will be nearer the truth, and have a deeper moral, Mr. "I half suspect this is a highwayman," thought the Jew; "he's so ready with his
cash. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. "Some one must have
assisted him.
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