Spurlock began to watch for Ruth's coming in the morning; first, with negligent
interest, then with positive eagerness. A time may come,—and that ere long,—when you will be glad
to purchase my secrets, and your own safety, at a dearer price than the heads of
your companions. “May I hear?”
“It really isn’t much to tell,” Drummond answered. “Guess who I’m going out with?” Michelle asked her
one day at lunch. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. And then there came for both of them at least a temporary awakening. “I remember you now,” he said. ‘No, you don’t. “Oh, Michelle, I’m such a miserable fool. If he escapes at all, it must
be before our faces. A pity you did not think to tell me that part of the tale at the
outset. Maggot.
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