But for him she might have been alive and happy. One reason, perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. For a time it really seemed all-sufficient to her that she should love. ‘But who was he, Gerald?’ ‘A damned condottiere,’ exploded Gerald, forgetting his company. The beautiful city that she had been awed by and even grown to love had been abandoned. Little by little the pool cleared, the whims vanished: so that both Ruth and the doctor, by the middle of the third week, began to accept Spurlock's actions as normal, whereas there was still a mote or two which declined to settle, still a kink in the gray matter that refused to straighten out. Jack was almost afraid of speaking; but at length he summoned courage to call out "Mother!" "Who's there?" asked a faint voice from the bed. Wood scarcely knew where he was. She sat in deep thought for a moment or two, and then nodding briskly, dipped the pen in the ink again and began to write. She felt sticky and ashamed when he dropped her off a block away from the McCloskey house as she had requested. ’ He stared at the point, glanced at the fallen sword imprisoned by her foot, and only just looked back at her weapon in time to see it thrust at him again. He stood by her side, and he suffered her hands to rest in his. Even now she could trace the outline of his shape behind the left-hand curtain. Hastening to the spot where he had tied his horse to a tree, he vaulted into the saddle, and rode off across the fields,—for he was fearful of encountering the hostile party,—till he reached the Edgeware Road. “In the event of his death we should require you at once to attend at the inquest.
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