There was a stain of wine upon her dress. ’ Melusine shifted her shoulders. She hesitated, and for a moment thought of omitting her second verse altogether. It has been proved. The Dawn Pearl! To be with her constantly, with no diversions to serve as barricades! Damn McClintock for putting this thought in his head—that Ruth loved him! He flung himself upon the beach, face downward, his outflung hands digging into the sand: which was oddly like his problem—he could not grip it. Why had Ruth married him? A penniless outcast, for she must have known he was that. Her lips came together with an expression between contentment and the faintest shadow of a smile, her manner was one of quiet reserve, and behind this mask she was wildly discontented and eager for freedom and life. What had shifted his casual interest was the visible prospect of a party of three who were coming down the packet gangplank. He had no wish to go foraging in Spurlock's trunk. Will you find your destiny, I wonder, or will you go through life like so many others—a wanderer, knocking ever at empty doors, homeless to the last? Oh, if one could but find the way to your heart. She gathered up the chain, revealing a locket which had lain hidden in her bosom. Uttering a faint scream, she sank backwards, and would have fallen, if it had not been for the interposition of Blueskin, who, at that moment, staggered into the room with a candle in one hand, and the bottle in the other. We have only those phantoms called memories, which are the husks of dreams. At last she was roused. ’ For a moment Melusine stared at him as she took in the full horror of his scheme.
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