I'm about to ring for supper. We were to ransom you, then we would fake your death, play as if the kidnappers had executed you. ” She took the pocket-book and looked up at him with a little impulsive movement. Voilà tout, as Melusine herself would say. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and blotched as though she had run through fire. She was wan and white. "You will never leave me," sobbed the poor woman, straining him to her breast. ‘And it is not only a question of her identity, but a matter of her life as well. Hugging them, they crept stealthily around the house, Major Alderley leading, and wasting—so his captain acidly commented—a deal of time checking the windows and doors. If he laid his own suspicions boldly before the girl, and in the end the boy came clean, he would always be haunted by the witless cruelty of the act. Selfishness. Mr. S. Drummond,” he continued, looking across at his vis-à-vis, “we look to you to give expression to our sentiments.
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