” “Be very sure that you do,” Anna said slowly. This, Wood, acting upon Terry's caution, was most unwilling to do; but, finding he had no alternative, he reluctantly made known his errand and the bolts were undrawn. “She means to go. “I never planned it—And now I have begun—” She felt acutely that he was entitled to explanations, and as acutely that explanations were impossible that night. In fact he was thinking of other things. ’ ‘Then who is this Englishman?’ demanded Gerald on a sceptical note. He liked to draw her in, and she did her best to talk. ’ ‘Excellent,’ Gerald had approved. But I dare not accept it. You’re a far cry from your usual gloomy self these days. 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. He waved a hand toward the sea. Then as she lay very still, with her hands clinched and her black hair tumbled about her face, he came still closer and softly kissed the nape of her neck. For the first time a definite doubt possessed him. "You've given him a broken head, I perceive.
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