‘Yes, tell us everything at once,’ instructed Lucilla, pushing him towards the sofa she had vacated, and obliging him to sit beside her. And I passed myself off as Meysey Hill, and since—then—I haven’t had a minute’s peace. She stood looking down upon him with dilated eyes. His gangling body was clothed in rusty twill trousers and a long black seersucker coat, buttoned to the throat, around which ran a collar which would have marked him the world over as a man of the Word. Sometimes ships would stop three or four days for water and repairs; and the men would carouse in the back room at Morgan's. Ah! I shall never forget the figure Jack cut on that occasion. It is a lovely little appendage to the mother who smiles over it, and it does things quaintly like her, gestures with her very gestures. “You are not going out—this evening, I trust,” that lady asked, a trifle dismayed. ’ Jack blinked. But she has let fall enough for me to understand that she knows about her father’s misdeeds. ” He dropped his eye-glass with a clatter. 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. “He couldn’t look me in the face and say it,” said Ann Veronica.
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