"
"Never fear—never fear," rejoined Abraham, as he took up the link, and left the
room. "Your name is Spurlock?"
"It is. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. "My name is Darrell," said the fugitive hastily. "
"He won't be taking that. White leaned forward in her chair with an anxious smile designed to throw
oil upon the troubled waters. “Then you need to find someone else. A thing
which had mystified her since childhood, a smouldering wonder why it should
be, and until now she had never felt the urge to investigate. To settle things, you know. For the rest, she derived her
ideas of the married state from the observed behavior of married women, which
impressed her in Morningside Park as being tied and dull and inelastic in
comparison with the life of the young, and from a remarkably various reading
among books. “Everything goes on, confound it!
One doesn’t change anything one has set going by making good resolutions. It isn’t pretty, but we’re made so. “I am delighted to see you, Mr. Fame of any sort was folly and she
knew better.
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