“And as for praying for faith—this sort of monologue is about as near as any one of my sort ever gets to prayer. There were words, then, that ran on indefinitely, with reversals? Here they meant one thing; there, the exact opposite. This he accomplished by holding the chain that connected them firmly between his teeth, and squeezing his fingers as closely together as possible, succeeded in drawing his wrists through the manacles. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “Well,” he said at last slowly, “I’ll pay it. ” “Coffee! Bah!” The newcomer picked her way across the floor with daintily uplifted skirts, and subsided into a deck chair of stretched canvas. ” He stared at her incredulously, and she laughed very softly. ’ Tears glistened in her eyes. “You are a dear,” she exclaimed affectionately. ’ Ignoring this, the major slipped his hands about her waist and lifted her to her feet. S. But her husband, whose deportment to her was considerably changed since the fatal knot had been tied, paid no attention whatever to her grief.
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