But the first one
was brought home, and it was the beginning of the end. And at the sight something leaped within her. Her mind left her. Paris was full, and it
was by no means a retired spot which she had found. ’
Chapter Three
Captain Hilary Roding listened with only half an ear to the long-winded report
being given by Sergeant Trodger, his idle gaze wandering over the congested
traffic of Piccadilly and the many pedestrians weaving a hazardous path through
it. For the most part these
were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men
in employment, a very large proportion of girls and women—self-supporting
women or girls of the student class. She lit
the cigarette with a tiny Kelly green drugstore lighter. You say you have
twenty-four hundred in your letter of credit. Her family had hosted a feast in his honor for which
they had taken weeks to prepare: with braised capons and
lobster sausages and all sorts of delicious spiced stews her
mother had made from secret recipes. His deduction was correct that the beauty of Ruth
Enschede could not remain hidden long even on a forgotten isle. She had seen her really only at teas, with the Stanley strain in her
uppermost. Sheppard, and neither deserve nor desire your thanks. A South Sea island girl, and this was her first adventure
into civilization. I may say
that the amount of the annuity I propose to allow you is two hundred a year. But for Ruth, he, Howard
Spurlock, might have ended upon the beach, inescapably damned.
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