His hand went to his pocket and extracted a neat silver-mounted pistol. She had told him, point blank, that since the Church had neither annulled the first marriage nor sanctified the second one, she was not his wife. That poor child, trying to escape, and not knowing how. "And, now I'll tell you what they do. The wedding day came shortly after she turned fourteen. She listened with growing apprehension to the tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced years. He rambled in an unfortunate monotone, the result of his innate fear of public speaking. She came in while he was still in the throes, conviction battling with commonsense, his own apprehension. She felt sickeningly empty. I'll turn cracksman, like my father—rob old Wood—he has chests full of money, and I know where they're kept—I'll rob him, and give the swag to you, Poll—I'll—" Jack would have said more; but, losing his balance, he fell to the ground, and, when taken up, he was perfectly insensible. But all these hours, trying to teach the child wariness toward life, and the moment his back was turned, this! He was, perhaps, still dazed by the inner revelation—his own interest in Ruth. Sorrows and danger and disappointment she had known. I’ve got imagination. Of course I know nothing of what really did happen in Paris—if even you ever saw him there.
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