“Just remember, I have to make this up to you. " Together they were making habitable the second bungalow, which was within calling distance of McClintock's. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. No other white people within twenty miles. "Won't you take these?" For a space he merely stared at her, perhaps wondering if she were real. " "Ah! indeed! what's he doing here?" inquired Jack. It was as if she had grown right past her father into something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other side. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. You fell in at once with her quixotic and damnable scheme of foisting her reputation and her follies upon your shoulders whilst she marries a rich man and commences all over again a life of selfish pleasure. "Look here," cried Jonathan, stooping down and taking hold of a ring in the floor, with which by a great effort he raised up a flag. It was a perfect windless spring day, a Sunday. Perhaps," she added, in a whisper, as she appropriated the beforenamed article, "he has a pocket-book. " Still the voice was without emotion; calm, colourless. Again returning to the main road, he passed through Clapton; and turning off on the left, arrived at the foot of Stamford Hill.
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