“Do you need me to tell you? You have tasted the luxury of power. CHAPTER XXIV Spurlock's novel was a tale of regeneration. She was tempted to touch him in the car as they drove to the empty house, but she refrained for fear of causing a car accident. The features were indistinct, but was that not a halo of white about it? And the dark shadow below, was that a cloak, or the habit of a nun? Skirting the dancing, from which he had taken a breather—not from lack of energy, but to escape the inanities of the young ladies he had partnered—Gerald made his way to a side door in the saloon and opened it. “My arrival appears to be opportune,” he said stiffly. He forgot for the moment his own self-pity, the egotism of his own passionate love. Had she not seen them go forth with tracts in their pockets and grins in their beards? To set fire to his imagination, to sting his sense of chivalry into being, to awaken his manhood, she must present some irresistible project. When you've seized him, cough thrice thus,—and two rough-looking gentlemen will make their appearance. She looked paler than ever; but her countenance, though bewildered, did not exhibit the alarm which might naturally have been anticipated from the strange and perplexing scene presented to her view. " "Oh God!" exclaimed Jack, paralysed by her cries. She was almost tempted to tell him, if only to see the cracks of surprise and incredulity break the immobility of his yellow countenance.
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