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. But this was long ago. On their return, the jailers raised up Jonathan, who was weltering in his blood, and who appeared to be dying. The crowning aspect of the incident, for her mind, was the discovery that he and her indiscretion with him no longer mattered very much. “Thank you—and good-bye. Basically a kindly man but made cynical and derisive by sordid contacts, O'Higgins had almost forgotten that there was such a thing as unselfishness. ’ Of which Melusine was only too well aware, for her stepmother had done nothing to save her from the convent. Imagine any one on this side refusing fifty bucks! Well, I'll be toddling along. You would find things to laugh at even in Artemus Ward. You’ll be telling me Gerald did not catch you snooping at the Bicknacres, I suppose. The room was worse than pokey, it was shabby; and the view from the window, of chimney pots and slate roofs, wholly uninspiring. He watched her, savoring her curious attention. "Let us fly from this frightful place.
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