Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. . It wasn’t anything splendid, you know. I waited until he was asleep and then I tied him up with some duct tape and some old rope he had in the shed. "Poor thing!" muttered he, as the widow departed on her errand, "she's seen better days and better circumstances than she'll ever see again, I'm sure. ” He moved himself from the recliner to the couch and patted a cushion. 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. Lucy collapsed to the floor in a sob. I owed his father a grudge: that I settled long ago. After all, it is not long since that a Catholic nun in this country would have had to remain in hiding. " And, walking up to the animals, which were chained to the wall, they instantly recognised him, and suffered the others to pass without barking. .
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