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. What a frightened fool he was! If he could not remember her name, it was equally possible that already she had forgotten his. I didn't think. She confronted him with his own double-standard. She had dreaded the beginning of this hour. " "Oh, that!" she said, with a deprecating gesture. Muttering something to himself, he appeared to be telling upon his fingers the advantages and disadvantages of some scheme he had in contemplation. A light was visible in the garret, feebly struggling through the damp atmosphere, for the night was raw and overcast. Miss Stanley, it was manifest, had given him Ann Veronica’s address. This girl whom he had met by chance and befriended had done both. Entering the house, he found himself in a narrow passage leading to the back stairs. " "That's the way it goes.
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