‘I do not steal,’ declared the lady hotly. It was
warm, shielding, comforting, and what was more, full of understanding. ”
“It’s dreadful for you to be here,” he said, indicating the yellow presence of
the first fog of the year without, “but your aunt told me something of what had
happened. ‘And me, I am a lady. She, having all the confidence
in the world, ripped off an end and drew out the contents—a letter and a check. Gerald watched its approach with vague interest, which quickened when he
saw that it was drawing up outside the very house out of which he had just
stepped. "I strangled him—ha! ha! ha!—strangled him while he was at my breast—ha!
ha!"—And then with a sudden and fearful change of look, she added, "That's
what has driven me mad, I killed my child to save him from the gallows—oh!
oh! One man hanged in a family is enough. Unless there
was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to
breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he
would become to her an object of pity and contempt. It's my
way when I'm ruffled. It’s an emerald. Out of these he selected a faded parchment and restored
the rest to safety.
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