CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. “I’ve fallen in love. What does he do these three days?’ She had come daily to the vestry, hoping to meet the lad and hear his report. But before the child could be committed to her care, it was wrested from the carpenter by Rowland. Glancing towards him she saw that a shadow had fallen upon his face. The smile had become a laugh. ] CHAPTER VIII Slowly Ruth entered her own room. She tried to keep her side up by declaring that he had put her into an impossible position, and he replied by shouting, “Nonsense! Nonsense! Any father in my place would have done what I did. He waited. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance, but with a very shrewd aspect. It is a most wonderful piece of good fortune, as I suppose you will be prepared to admit. " "Pearls!" "Sounds romantic, eh? Well, forty years ago the pearl game hereabouts was romantic; but there's only one real pearl region left—the Persian Gulf.
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