How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. “I could not have stayed in Paris and waited for news. They trudged and
talked, and Manning struggled, as he said, to “get the hang of it all. ‘She knows what she’s up against. I burned it. If the boy did not love the girl, why the devil had he
dragged her into this marriage?
Spurlock was a bit shaky bodily, but his brain was functioning clearly; and, it
might be added, swiftly—as the brain always acts when confronted by a
perplexing riddle. Keep your eye upon the lad. "Fear!" echoed Wild, in a terrible tone,—"fear! Repeat that word again, and
nothing shall save you. But as she got out of the train at Morningside Park Station she had a shock. There are boats on the lake and shady depths and
wildernesses of pine-wood. Analysis would come later, when the primitive
conscience, satisfied, would cease to dominate his thought and action. So, in broken, rather breathless phrases, he told his story; and
when he had done, he laid his arms upon the table and bent his head to them.
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