‘I feared as much. ”
She glanced shyly at the mirror above her dressing-table, and then about her at
the furniture, as though it might penetrate to the thoughts that peeped in her
mind. The Scot understood that, gently and indirectly, Ruth
was asking her husband a question, opening a door if he cared to enter. ‘Say then, Jacques, you have followed him?’ she demanded of the blackgarbed footman. “He was alive at four o’clock this afternoon,” she answered, “but the doctors
give little hope of his recovery. He’s out in Phoenix last I heard. I’m ashamed
to confess it, but I didn’t want the charge of you—a too close reminder of my
own lost babe. Day by day she followed the
spiritual and physical contest between this man and woman. She tugged at my coat and said,
‘I know of the blue-eyed maid. The mere enumeration of the obstacles that existed would have deterred any
spirit less daring than Sheppard's from even hazarding the attempt. "
"Liar!" ejaculated Thames. She had very few clear
memories before a particular day in the library, when they
had finished one of her first reading lessons.
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