Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. I guess she used to pick on her for being big and fat. When mistress took and died—’ Joan broke off and sighed, moving away to the window. It belonged to his father, and was worn by him on the night he was murdered. ’ He strode to the fireplace behind the leather-topped desk and addressed his own reflection in the mirror, wagging an admonitory finger in his own face. It would have been the right idea, had Ruth been other than what she was. Her elbows were ready. He was a young man of about two-and-twenty, who, without having anything remarkable either in dress or appearance, was yet a noticeable person, if only for the indescribable expression of cunning pervading his countenance. She was posing before the mirror, critically, miserably, defensively, and perhaps bewilderedly. "He has escaped!" exclaimed the knight; "we have searched every corner of the house without finding a trace of him. The salt air was fresher than the stale air in the manor.
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