They telephoned that you had absconded with ten
thousand, and that if I would make good the loss within twenty-four hours, they
would not prosecute. Yet he stays. ’
‘Fancy my old pa thinking you was a French spy. . He
brought his mother to call, and as you know the Countess goes scarcely
anywhere. If you attempt to play the
traitor, you will do so at the hazard of your life. "Gad! it's a devilish
fine face when lit up. "
"Mrs. 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. That is what stands between us, if you
would know—that. He temporized, and the girl raised her eyes once
more to his. From midnight until morning he was now left alone. "
"We'll see that, young hempseed," replied Sharples, shutting the hatch furiously
in his face, and locking it. She laughed till the tears stood in her eyes. As she drew off her skirt she felt something in the pocket, and
remembered the letter which the commissionaire at the Carlton had given her.
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