The first Step towards the Ladder VII. Section 2. “A wonderful piece of work,” he declared. It’s the only clean way for us. There was just time for the girl to raise her arm to chest height and draw it back before Roding seized her. Darting quickly to the chest that contained the priest’s vestments, she leapt onto it and reached her arm down to scrabble behind it on the floor. The struggles of the wounded man were desperate—so desperate, that in his agony he overset the table, and, in the confusion, tore off the cloth, and disclosed a face horribly mutilated, and streaming with blood. ‘It must seem strange to you at first. And catching hold of Thames, he quitted the deck. The fact is I was so glad to see you again that it never occurred to me that a little discretion might be advisable. Any man might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. Running to Gosse, she seized the portrait from his hand and lashed out, taking him off guard, so that he staggered back and fell against the card table.
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