Besides, it was under false pretences. ” He relapsed into a stony silence. 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. Ruth and Spurlock separated, the one embarrassed, the other utterly dumfounded. Morals only begin when that is settled. There was a wild light in her eye, and her straight hair was out demonstrating and suffragetting upon some independent notions of its own. When any violent outrage was committed,—and such matters were of daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence,—a bell, the rope of which descended into the hall, brought the whole of the turnkeys to their assistance. Kimble was clearly a plain-spoken fellow. "Continue the proceedings. I found him once in my rooms, and I believe that he had a key to my front door. I’m a desperate young woman. To wait for hours and hours for the night! The sea empty for days! You forgot the monotony, the endless monotony, that bends you and breaks you and crushes you—you forgot that!" Her voice had steadily risen until it was charged with passionate anger. Her mother had prepared her for everything. "When it thunders, the thief becomes honest," muttered Wood.
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