"Your name is Spurlock?" "It is. "I see you don't know him as well as you pretend. After encountering other dangers, and being twice, compelled to fling himself flat upon his face to avoid slipping from the wet and slimy pathway, he was at length about to emerge from the lock, when, to his inexpressible horror, he found he had lost the child! All the blood in his veins rushed to his heart, and he shook in every limb as he made this discovery. CHAPTER XXII Every morning at dawn it was Spurlock's custom to take a plunge in the lagoon. I deemed it more prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any search after him by his adoptive father—the carpenter Wood. He certainly bore inspection. “And even then—” The conversation hung for a thoughtful moment. “I may as well come up by this train. My husband, he is cruel and wicked, and—and entirely undistinguished. The blouse dried nicely, it would only need a touch of starch and a little ironing. Brutes! They are the brute still with us! Science some day may teach us a way to do without them. Her fingers rested upon his. Her aunt, a faded, anæmic-looking lady of somewhat too obtrusive gentility, was still sitting with her hand pressed to her heart. The momentary alarm over, he threw a piece of-wash leather over a bureau, so as to deaden the sound, and instantly broke it open with a small crowbar.
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