CHAPTER V At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she accepted gratefully. She could have dined alone in her room; but courage had demanded that she face the ordeal and have done with it. McClintock laughed as he gave the letter to Ruth. They were so good to me. Even were she to get an opportunity to scream, it would be some time before such a call, unprecedented though it might be, brought the nuns so much out of their absorption that they interrupted their prayer to investigate. They'll be back soon enough—or not at all. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size, and appeared almost to block up the window. She arrived about nine o’clock the next evening in a state of tremulous enthusiasm. " "I'm convinced of it," replied Shotbolt; "and it was on that very account I came here. ’ ‘You certain? She’s a thought too volatile for my money. Seeing provisions in the window, Jack ventured in and bought a loaf. " "You're fine, too.
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