She remained
by the door until the walls of the city swallowed the bobbing lantern. Entering the house, he found himself in a narrow passage
leading to the back stairs. "But I appeal to you, Sir James, whether it isn't extraordinary that so very slight
a person should be such a desperate robber as he is represented—so young, too,
for such an old offender. The woman I wanted was another man's wife. You understand me, I’m sure. Oh, yes; of Ruth herself he knew much; but the more he mulled over what he
knew, the deeper grew his chagrin. ’
‘Well, sir? Who is “she”? Not my granddaughter, I take it. Beck, it smells wonderful in here. They carried no more than
bare subsistence wages; and they demanded all her time and energy. A South Sea island girl, and this was her first adventure
into civilization. "And you have seen … drunken men?" Prudence's tones were full of suppressed
horror. If she spoke to a policeman she did not
know what would ensue.
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