I sit back now, letting life slip by and musing
upon it; and I find my loneliness sweet. Whoever chose to
incur the risk of so doing might enter the Mint at any hour; but no one was
suffered to depart without giving a satisfactory account of himself, or producing
a pass from the Master. "Because you did not wish to hurt me?"
"Yes. 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. Her shoulders began to ache. . ’
‘They? How many are there?’
‘Oh, peste. "Where can I hide myself?" he added, glancing round
the room in search of a closet. CHAPTER XVII. If I am to die in the attempt, then so be it. "
So saying, he advanced towards the window, threw open the sash, and called out
in the voice of Thames Darrell, "Who's there?"
He was answered by a shot from a pistol.
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