" "So do I," replied Ruth. Chapter IX BRENDON’S LUCK Anna sat in a chair in her room and sighed. “How CAN I tell him?” whispered Miss Stanley. Beyond was a chaise longue, covered with cushions and shawls laid anyhow across it, together with a discarded tapestry in the making, and a scattering of woollen threads about it. I completed it according to the directions, you see, and it was a beautiful machine, a triangle sort of, with a steering column I built out of an old wheelbarrow and a hubcap. “You had only to ask——” “Do you think,” Anna interrupted, with a note of passion trembling also in her tone, “that I would have taken alms from Sir John, the man to whom I had lied for your sake. . I can fairly understand Ruth; but you…!" "Have you ever been so lonely that the soul of you cried in anguish? Twentyfour hours a day to think in, alone?… Perhaps I did not want to go mad from loneliness. ” “How?” “Well—a little clumsily. But what I want to get at is this. And when I have steeped him to the lips in vice and depravity; when I have led him to the commission of every crime; when there is neither retreat nor advance for him; when he has plundered his benefactor, and broken the heart of his mother—then—but not till then, I will consign him to the fate to which I consigned his father. Once the ship faltered, and the tip of this jade wall broke into a million gems and splashed him liberally. " "You are very good to me, Hoddy. " "May I trust you?" hesitated Thames.
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