Hence!"
"Mother! dear mother!" cried Jack, in a voice, the tones of which were altered by
his very anxiety to make them distinct, "listen to me. Does this not disturb you?”
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“Of course it disturbs me. "It is addressed to my
mother," he added, as his eye glanced rapidly over it, "and by my father. . He’s got a past
as dark as yours, did you know that?”
Lucy was aware of the many circles of Hell that Mike
had passed through before getting lucky and being
adopted by the Becks. She got out of bed, her eyes still half-closed, and stood
slack jawed. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. ’ She
shook her head. A neighbor
stopped by as the day wore on, causing her to duck and
cower as he rang the doorbell over and over. The boy had all kinds of opportunity; but it's the old story of father making
it too easy. He could not tell whether she was English or American. Her English
was halting. "
"I'm convinced of it," replied Shotbolt; "and it was on that very account I came
here.
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