Take the one that struck
him at this moment. Within forty-eight hours the girl would be
on her way east and the boy see-sawing the South China Sea, for ever moving at
absolute angles. How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. Mrs
Sindlesham occupied a large padded armchair to one side of a corner fireplace,
which gave out a heat more than adequate for September to one of the major’s
robust constitution. Day after day for a measured hour in the lecture-theatre, with elaborate power
and patience, Russell pieced together difficulty and suggestion, instance and
counter-instance, in the elaborate construction of the family tree of life. "
"Mr. ‘I hope I do
not understand you. After
all, it was really rather funny. His patient was distinctly of a
different order of life. "His wife is still living," returned Kneebone, drily.
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