“Some day,” she answered. "Zounds!" cried Kneebone, furiously. Sheppard, distractedly. So far as I'm concerned, nothing could please me more. “But was it wise to sing to-night?” “Why not? The man was nothing to me. “One has to be so careful of one’s friends and acquaintances,” he remarked, by way of transition. He had the same dark eyes, though lighted by a fierce flame; the same sallow complexion; the same tall, thin figure, and majestic demeanour; the same proud cast of features. A small voice greeted her, hissing. ‘Been led up the garden path by that confounded rapscallion. ” “I am afraid I have not been very nice,” she said sadly. Only, he'll be an interesting specimen for me to observe. 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. "What a very remarkable thing it is," he observed, applying to his snuff-box, "that Thames Darrell, whom we all supposed dead,"—Kneebone in his heart sincerely wished he had been so,—"should turn out to be alive after all. At every step he seemed to be haunted by the ghost of the past. The brilliant sunshine poured through the window, effecting an oblong block of mote-swimming light.
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