“You seem to have
come from Miss Pellissier’s rooms. “Hold on, she’s right here. "I cannot—will not suffer you to
remain here. “You are magnificent,” she said, “but the steel of your truth is a little
oversharpened. Once they were below, McClintock turned upon the doctor. 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. One reason,
perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in
the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was
favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. "
"Except me, dear," insinuated Edgeworth Bess.
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