She worried for Cathy, working double shifts at the nearby family restaurant to help make ends meet. 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. ‘Merci, dieu. She had treated him badly; she had hurt him and her aunt; she had done wrong by their standards, and she would never persuade them that she had done right. “What a fool I am!” he muttered, standing up on the hearthrug, and leaning his elbows upon the broad mantelpiece. They could not have called it a fatal motor accident if he had not been dead. ” “Is this a fair sample of the dinner?” Anna asked, who had the healthy appetite of a strong young woman. Darell's peculiar bent of mind was exemplified in a rusty broadsword, a tall grenadier's cap, a musket without lock or ramrod, a belt and cartouch-box, with other matters evincing a decided military taste. His relation of the murder of Sir Rowland petrified even his fierce auditors. He was by no means certain that she would not in fact attempt to blow off his head as she had threatened.
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