’ She seemed to recollect herself suddenly. The report of his detention caused an immense sensation. E. Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. To find the true father at the expense of the beautiful fairy tale Ruth had woven around the woman in the locket was an intolerable thought. With such qualifications as she possessed, two chief channels of employment lay open, and neither attracted her, neither seemed really to offer a conclusive escape from that subjection to mankind against which, in the person of her father, she was rebelling. Men in this part of the world drink to forget the things they have lost. You and the girl have made it soft for him, and I'm going to make it soft for him. He was not able to recognize, as the doctor did, that she was only a natural woman. She found herself again in the presence of some element in life about which she had been trained not to think, about which she was perhaps instinctively indisposed to think; something which jarred, in spite of all her mental resistance, with all her preconceptions of a clean and courageous girl walking out from Morningside Park as one walks out of a cell into a free and spacious world. She felt sticky and ashamed when he dropped her off a block away from the McCloskey house as she had requested. Spurlock relaxed, suddenly, and sank deeply into his pillows. She stepped backwards. “Time for my Patience,” she said. The youthful couple had been seated in the carriage a few minutes when they were joined by Mr.
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