The worst was over now. “I had those beautiful roses from you on my first night, and a tiny little note but no address. ” There was genuine interest in her eyes now. ‘Though we might have done, if a certain addlepated clothhead hadn’t let her get away. She was alone, and the mask of her unchanging high spirits was for the moment laid aside. She would buy a Greyhound ticket to New Orleans, make a kill or two, then travel into Texas and seduce some wandering man into taking her to Mexico, feast upon him once they got there. To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. Why shouldn’t we be martyrs? There’s nothing else for most of us, anyhow. He laid down the knife, and fixed a searching and distrustful gaze upon the writer, who continued his task, unconscious of anything having happened. ’ The full story—or as much as Gerald knew—of Valade’s machinations shocked the old lady so much that she was obliged to recruit her strength with a refill from the Madeira decanter.
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