I had
special ways of getting out of the basement without them
noticing, and often I could smuggle a child or two out for
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the day and they were never the wiser. They looked out over the city, grim and silent now,
for it was long past midnight. Each time a daughter had been born to him he had concealed
his chagrin with great tenderness and effusion from his wife, and had sworn
unwontedly and with passionate sincerity in the bathroom. My poor brain is so mixed, dear, I hardly know what I
am saying. Gerald looked at it, then at her face. All his dreams shattered in an instant. Everything goes—the copra for oil, the fibre of the husk
for rope, and the shell for carbon. I had not seen the courtyard in many years
and I was happy to dream of those times. ” He said. ‘Well?’ demanded Miss Froxfield, accepting a glass of lemonade proffered by
a passing lackey. "Aw, piffle!" he said, half aloud and rather disgustedly, as he stepped out into the
sunshine. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. ”
She looked at him doubtfully. T' other gen'l'man said the
letter 'ud explain all. Hoddy, what made you do it? Whatever made you do it?"
"God knows! Something said to me: Take it! Take it! And … I took it.
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