CHAPTER VII The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. He was struck disagreeably by Ramage’s air of gallant consideration and Ann Veronica’s self-possessed answers. Before the first month was gone, McClintock admitted that the boy was a find. "Thames!—Thames!" cried Winifred, rushing to the window. Lord Charvill’s sense of justice would not, however, allow him to repudiate his granddaughter, if indeed this female proved to be the infant lost to the family so many years ago. There came to O'Higgins the discouraging knowledge that upon the heels of a wonderful chase—blindman's buff in the dark—would come a stretch of dull inaction. You will have a bungalow to yourself," continued McClintock, "and your morning meal will be your own affair. "Well, if you won't come, I shall help myself, and that's unsociable," pursued the speaker, evidently, from the noise he made, suiting the action to the word. "Are you a poltroon, after all?" "That's it! I ought to have died that night!" "Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude. I don’t want any laws or freedoms to protect me from a man like Mr. “The sooner you tell me the better.
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