She drank and drank until his body was a
lifeless husk, as light as a mannequin, virtually hollow of
all but the fluid in his bones. But as the mystery which surrounded Ruth fell away
that which enveloped her father thickened. Do you think we could
manage that old clothesman between us, if we got out of this box?"
"I'd manage him myself, if my arms were free," replied Thames, boldly. ”
“I suppose,” Ennison said, “the likeness between the sisters must be rather
exceptional?”
“I never saw the goody-goody one close to, so I can’t say,” Drummond
answered. ” Michelle spat. One has to train one’s self not to. You have only to look resolute and proceed upon
your way. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. His father and his
four brothers had perished, leaving him to collect all of
their spoils and various kingdoms. She would be haunted
by the visions of their mad faces in her dreams for the
next hundred years. ”
She raked into the fire with the poker. A cold shiver ran through her frame, and her gentle spirit passed away for ever. ’
‘I could have done so at the first and saved you the pain,’ she told him merrily.
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