"
"Oh!" Ruth laughed softly. But I may
yet live to thwart them. What happened between Ruth and her father that made him hurry
off without passing ordinary courtesies with me?"
"I suppose I ought to tell you," said Spurlock; "but it is understood that Ruth
shall never know the truth. It was an odd little encounter, that left vague and dubitable impressions in her
mind. Why, he can scarcely be twenty. As it happens sometimes, the idea stepped down
from the dream into the reality; and he saw it more clearly now than he had seen
it in the dream. He found the door ajar, and, to his surprise, perceived little
Winifred seated at a table, busily engaged in tracing some design upon a sheet of
paper. On the groundfloor the shutters were closed, or, to
speak more correctly, altogether nailed up, and presented a very singular
appearance, being patched all over with the soles of old shoes, rusty hobnails,
and bits of iron hoops, the ingenious device of the former occupant of the
apartment, Paul Groves, the cobbler, to whom we have before alluded.
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