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. It towered up high above the level of the pass, thousands of feet, still, shining, and white, and below, thousands of feet below, was a floor of little woolly clouds. But the indecision, which had been fatal to his race, was fatal to him. His hug became an embrace. There was Major Price—you must recollect him, Sir Rowland,—he stumbled as he was getting out of his chair at that very gate. It seemed to make her sister downcast beyond any precedent. She was silent. He was even a little jealous of Sebastian. The wheel and the navigating instruments were sternward, under a spread of heavy canvas, a protection against rain and sun. She recognized the face but could not quite place it. “When did you start?” She said between puffs. Now he thought she was so foolish that she knew only one stroke. Incursions were often made upon its territories by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important caption could be effected. ” She looked away from him. She lay still for a long time, and her mind resumed at a more tolerable pace.
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