”
He scarcely saw her face again. 95
The officer showed her into the sleepy suburban
police station, a hub of inactivity on Sunday night except
for herself and a slightly drunk woman who had been
brought in for DUI. The fashions of the day have become
antiquated. It is not, my dear Veronica, that I think there is any harm in you; there is not. In doing this, he chanced to raise his eyes and
half fancied he beheld, shaded by a pillar at the extremity of the western aisle,
the horrible countenance of the thief-taker. ‘I live in Kent. At the same
time,” she added, in a suddenly altered tone, “it isn’t anything whatever to do
with you, is it?”
“Why not?” he answered. Now, Sir," he
added, turning to Jonathan, as Sir Cecil and his followers obeyed his injunctions,
"you say you know the road which the person whom we seek has taken?"
"I do," replied Jonathan. Too easily roused emotions and too little passion. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of
bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not
care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to
the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. He was sipping a
glass of cold gin and water, and smoking a short black pipe. Make haste!"
Ruth hurried off to her own room. The
man’s as obstinate as a mule.
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