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. “And that only brings me up to about sixty-five! “A glittering wilderness of time That to the sunset reaches No keel as yet its waves has ploughed Or gritted on its beaches. She feared he might take her tears as a sign of weakness. He returned to the car, Cokes in hand. Of what use was the temporary set-back to memory, when it always returned with redoubled poignancy? Then came another thought, astonishing. 214 < 27 > REVELATION IN THE CORNFIELD “This is my favorite thing. ‘Has this capitaine of yours not yet rid us of this Emile? What can he find to say to him?’ ‘Don’t be impatient,’ Gerald said, rising too and coming to draw her away from the door. ’ She inclined her head, looking up at him through her lashes, and passing a tongue lightly over her lips. “Why should I bear the burden of your wickedness? Who knows what might come of it? I shall permit nothing of the sort.
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