He laughed at her heartily, and she laughed too as she had not for a year. Satisfied in this respect, he flung himself into a chair, for his iron frame seldom required the indulgence of a bed, and sought an hour's repose before he began the villanies of another day. ’ Gerald suppressed a grin. Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. There was. . ” “It’s so strange to think of you—troubled by such things. This was David Courtlaw, whose ways, too, had never been very different from the ways of other men as regards her sex. ’ Gerald dropped down to join her just as her hand came up, clutching the handle. Conscience was always digging sudden pits for his feet and common sense ridiculing his fears. Fortescue’s steps, and encountered him with an air of artless surprise. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. What a God-forsaken fool he was! And dimly, out there somewhere in the South Seas—the beach! Already he sensed the fascination of the inevitable; and with this fascination came the idea of haste, to get there quickly and have done. She was saying good-bye to childhood and home, and her making; she was going out into the great, multitudinous world; this time there would be no returning. “I may go to Hatton House later, but you needn’t wait.
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