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taverns and bad company, and you may yet do well. “I hope you will not compel me to
say again that I do not know the man’s name, nor, to the best of my belief, have I
ever seen him before in my life. "
"But what, in God's name, possessed you? You have already wrecked your own
life and now you've wrecked hers. But it don't much matter—though he's a devilish shrewd fellow, and might have
helped me out of a difficulty, had any occurred. He did not love Ruth. The call of youth to youth, and we name it love for want of something better: a
glamorous, evanescent thing "like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a
little hour or two, was gone. I had a hunch. "I shall state my suspicions to the
governor. “Our ways happened to lie together. May I do so to-day?”
“It’s your gate,” she said, amiably; “you got it first. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions.
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