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. A
familiar ache of wanting made itself more insistent in her
belly. “Heavens!” she exclaimed. "
"Winny," said Thames, tenderly, "something which that self-sufficient fool has
said has so far done me a service in enabling me to speak upon a subject which I
have long had upon my lips, but have not had courage to utter. He saw the colossal selfishness of his
act; but he could not beg off on the plea of abnormality. ”
A little blond creature close at hand suddenly gave way to a fit of hysterical
laughter, and caught up the end of it with a sob. "
"Oh!" Ruth laughed softly. Some years after the date of this history, an
immense ventilator was placed at the top of the Gate, with the view of purifying
the prison, which, owing to its insufficient space and constantly-crowded state,
was never free from that dreadful and contagious disorder, now happily
unknown, the jail-fever. There was
a moment’s breathless and disappointed silence.
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