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The next moment, a heavy plunge told that
the fugitive had been consigned to the waves. The momentary alarm over, he threw a piece of-wash leather over a
bureau, so as to deaden the sound, and instantly broke it open with a small crowbar. If ever
the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then
understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. "
"By Heaven!" cried Kneebone, with increasing fervour, "it is true—as true as my
affection for you. The Ralphs and Mannings and Fortescues came down upon the raw
inexperience, upon the blinking ignorance of the newcomer; and before her eyes
were fairly open, before she knew what had happened, a new set of guides and
controls, a new set of obligations and responsibilities and limitations, had
replaced the old. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous
undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that
summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy
annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as
preoccupied with them. She wanted to be alone. “It has all been a
mistake, hasn’t it?”
“No more talking,” the doctor interposed. She said that? To be closer to you?”
“I think she is plotting something, though I cannot
guess what. I was just like a sort of
dummy that does things as it is told—that is to say, as the strings are pulled.
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