“How could I, when your sister sings now at the
‘Unusual’ every night and the name ‘Alcide’ flaunts from every placard in
London?”
“The likeness between us,” she said, “before I began to disfigure myself with
rouge and ill-dressed hair, was remarkable. \"Where are you going?\" She cried. “Then we must try and make London endurable for you,” he remarked
cheerfully. It was no easy matter to determine her age, for, though she still retained
a certain youthfulness of appearance, she had many marks in her countenance,
usually indicating the decline of life, but which in her case were, no doubt, the
result of constant and severe indisposition. "Out of the beaten track, with a real
man for an employer? How would that strike you?"
Interest shot into Spurlock's eyes; it spread to his wan face. He
was in a position to help her. And he had gone away without knowing the
truth!
"My proa boys are ready; the wind is brisk; and in an hour we shall be beyond
all pursuit. Why? While the
front of his mind was busy warning her not to fall into the hopeless miseries of
underpaid teaching, and explaining his idea that for women of initiative, quite as
much as for men, the world of business had by far the best chances, the back
chambers of his brain were busy with the problem of that “Why?”
His first idea as a man of the world was to explain her unrest by a lover, some
secret or forbidden or impossible lover. Glad to get back, I’m sure,” he said briskly.
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