But this only incensed the assailing party the more. 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. Yon must be mine to-night. " "They shall have it, then," replied his better half, rising. They telephoned that you had absconded with ten thousand, and that if I would make good the loss within twenty-four hours, they would not prosecute. Aunt and niece regarded each other silently. He had a peculiar way of stepping in, in a parry; knew his arm, and its just time of moving; put a firm faith in that, and never let his opponent escape. ” She had spoken rather rapidly. A sinister thought edged in. " "I am calm—quite calm, Rowland," she answered, with lips whose agitation belied her words. . "You dropped this, sir. Her mother did not seem to like the new doctor at all, shunning him with a near superstitious dread. And this damning evidence―’ with a brusque gesture at the portrait ‘―must also be destroyed. I proceeded to Manchester, to investigate the matter further, and when there ascertained, beyond a doubt, that you were the eldest daughter of Sir Montacute Trenchard.
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