How fortunate that she recognises the resemblance. Here you only waste your time. She had been so busy with life that, for a vast gulf of time, as it seemed, she had given no thought to those ancient, imagined things of her childhood. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. Some one was standing beside him. The candles—for McClintock never used oil in his dining room—were burning low in the sconces. ‘Where the devil have you been?’ ‘Consorting with a nun in the gardens. “There is my aunt,” she said. A few yards further off something grey, inert, was lying, a huddled-up heap of humanity twisted into a strange unnatural shape. Here was Ruth Enschede—sick of love! Love—something the world would always keep hidden from her, at least human love. She was strong, not unlike a pack mule or a camel; she thought to herself and smirked. He it was who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows. And then if some day Capes wanted her—saw fit to alter his views upon friendship.
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