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. "
Jonathan made no answer, but snatching a torch from a bystander, jumped into
the trench and commenced a diligent search. As
he passed the Six Bells, he noticed the steeds of the two horsemen at the door;
and glancing into the house, perceived the younger of the two in the passage. But the fall was too great, and he abandoned the attempt. Lucy did her best to avoid talking about it, but the
subject was beguiling, as it almost always brought news
about him from the grapevine within which Michelle was
intravenously entwined. ‘It’s a pretty name. No one would ever know what happened to him. How plainly he could see the patch of garden in the
summer sunshine and the white hollyhocks nodding above the picket fence!
*****
Ruth sat waiting for the half hour, subconsciously. Larry fell off the truck the Wednesday night before
she planned on leaving. To-morrow I shall come and talk to
you again—of other things. But I have never seen America. Pramlay received them in the pretty chintz drawing-room, which opened
by French windows on the trim garden, with its croquet lawn, its tennis-net in
the middle distance, and its remote rose alley lined with smart dahlias and
flaming sunflowers. Martha had been more to her than that. “I
believe that he would bore me.
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