CHAPTER XX. It filled her with indefinable fear. “Be careful,” Lucy cautioned Michelle as she
sidestepped a two by four studded with upturned nails. ‘What in God’s
name do you think you’re playing at?’
‘Let me alone, man,’ Gerald muttered under his breath. Thus, you see, I've never hesitated and never shall hesitate to expose my life
where anything is to be gained. Such an obvious ruse, but the boys and
girls would defend their pride to the bitter end, the facade
of study groups during rutting season. The girl stood with her
hands behind her back, sulky, resolute, and intelligent, a strand of her black hair
over one eye and looking more than usually delicate-featured, and more than
ever like an obdurate child. Whoever answers them must assist me to capture your son. What are
you to do with a mad mother at a time when you need all your wits to take care
of yourself?"
"Don't concern yourself further about me," returned Jack. “I have heard of you, of course,” Anna answered hesitatingly, “but——”
“You cannot imagine what I have come to see you about. It frightened her to behold her heart and mind
thus laid bare; but the chapter following would reassure her. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. She opened it and drew out a letter, and folded within it were the notes she
had sent off to Ramage that day.
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