He learnt that his sister was privately married—the
name or rank of her husband could not be ascertained—and living in retirement
in an obscure dwelling in the Borough, where she had given birth to a son. Jackson. Spurlock gave his full name and tremblingly inscribed it upon the
certificate of marriage. ’
‘So would you run away,’ she uttered impulsively. Eh bien, they would see about this. She walked straight across to the wardrobe and opened it. ‘And for you, monsieur le major, it will be well if you do not make me a shock
like this again. No, don’t interrupt me. For nothing they kiss. When she confessed all
this to her charge, telling the now grown up babe that there was no hope in the
world of establishing any claim, she very soon discovered her mistake. ‘Very wise,’ commented Gerald. Ann Veronica listened thoughtfully,
with her eyes on the turf, and now and then she asked a question or looked up to
discuss a point. He gently took the roses from her and laid
them on the pillow. 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.
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