He had been gone entirely one day, for yesterday afternoon he had
departed from Remenham House, and she had waited with patience like a saint,
and now it was again the afternoon. Wood, with a look meant to
reduce her supposed rival to the dust. He was waiting in the outer hall as she tiptoed in. While involved in this crowd, near Temple Bar,
—where the thoroughfare was most dangerous from the masses of ruin that
impeded it,—an individual, whose swarthy features recalled to the carpenter one
of his tormentors of the previous night, collared him, and, with bitter
imprecations accused him of stealing his child. Ruth sighed; Spurlock stood up and drew his hand
across his forehead as if awakening from a dream. ’
‘When you begin to tell the truth,’ Gerald told her severely, ‘I shall be happy
to believe you. It was as if he could smell it
on her. “How I am to earn enough sous for my dinner to-morrow—or failing that, what I
can sell. ‘You see, unlike you, mademoiselle, your cavalier here
would not wish to be arrested. Yes!" she screamed, "these
are his father's features! It is—it is my son!"
"Mother!" cried Thames; "are you, indeed, my mother?"
"I am, indeed—my own sweet boy!" she sobbed, pressing him tenderly to her
breast. She turned to face him and
he kissed her. “She was the
High Priestess who turned me in Greece, before Rome. —BRENDON.
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