His client’s story is safe with him. Profoundly. She had, it was true, accepted doubtfully the pen he had offered. "Perhaps that would have been best. “What a little brick!” he murmured. It isn't as if he were stricken with typhoid or pneumonia or something like that. The next instant, he was launched into eternity! Scarcely had he been turned off a moment, when a man with swarthy features leapt into the cart with an open clasp-knife in his hand, and, before he could be prevented, severed the rope, and cut down the body. He glanced at his watch. She was reasonably certain why. “You will sign the contract?” “I shall sign the contract. The man muttered something inaudible, and gathered up the reins. 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. Her first intimations of marriage as a fact of extreme significance in a woman’s life had come with the marriage of Alice and the elopement of her second sister, Gwen.
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