But it
doesn’t alter the situation. ’
She tried to shake his hands off her wrists, but Gerald held them fast and
tutted at her. “But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked
at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?”
“I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. ‘Why do you think I want a man ready to run to me with every move she
makes?’ countered Gerald. The idea of Ruth as a
talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea—
faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. I have strength enough to drag myself there, and I do not want to return. If you have aided Jack Sheppard's escape, you shall owe your
discharge to me also. She passed people in
the streets and regarded them with a quickening apprehension, once or twice
came girls dressed in slatternly finery, going toward Regent Street from out these
places. "
"But I've got to go!" insisted Rollo, in perfectly understandable dog-talk. CHAPTER XIV
Ruth lost the point entirely.
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