CHAPTER XXIII
Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. So, then, when McClintock offered the coveted haven, Spurlock became afire to
dramatize the idea. The smell of laundry detergent was noticeable,
the bed sheets very tightly stretched across the bed,
tucked in on three sides. Mac—the old gossip—knew about everything going on
in that part of the world; and if Enschede was anything up to the picture the girl
had drawn, McClintock would have heard of him, naturally. To-day he selected the girl, and gave her the lead-chair. ”
He leaned back in his chair as though wearied. ”
She stopped, and then suggested: “I wonder—I should love—if it was
anything I said. She listened, listened intently for several minutes. ”
To her relief, Trodger sent one of his men posthaste to London with this
missive, while the other went to fetch the horse, having been given precise
directions on how to negotiate the passage so that he might find it at the other
end. ”
He shook his head, and threw open the door of a great dimly-lit apartment on the
ground floor. She had almost chosen to prostitute herself rather
than live in that animal state once, but had found a warm
cave in Kentucky just as situations had grown truly
desperate. Somehow her walk home
with him had been transmogrified into a melodramatic
rejection, a slamming. She helped herself to the
remainder of the slightly congealed bacon, and reverted to the problem of getting
her luggage out of the house.
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