"Ali Baba, in a blue-serge coat!… God-forsaken fool!"
CHAPTER XIII
One day Ruth caught the patient's eyes following her about; but there was no
question in the gaze, no interest; so she pretended not to notice. Adjoining it was the Lower Ward,—"Though,
in what degree of latitude it was situated," observes Ned Ward, "I cannot
positively demonstrate, unless it lay ninety degrees beyond the North Pole; for,
instead of being dark there but half a year, it is dark all the year round. From then until four in the afternoon there was nothing to do—the
whole island went to sleep. Ruth went on to explain. Kneebone were here to protect me!"
"If it is Jonathan," rejoined Wood, "it is very well for Mr. Not so bad. Upon what this instinct was based she could not say; she was
conscious only of its insistence. The doctor had not heard from his people. Half an hour's labour, during which he was obliged more than once to pause to
regain breath, sufficed to make a hole wide enough to allow a passage for his
arm up to the elbow. Proper enough now,
when he could not help himself, but the habit would be formed; and when he
was strong again it would become the normal role, hers to give and his to
receive. “I have signed a statement that I
shot myself; bad trade and drink, both true—both true. ”
“Look here!” said Capes, “what on earth do you want? What do you think we
can do? Don’t you know what men are, and what life is?—to come to me and
talk to me like this!”
“I know—something, anyhow. ”
“I resent!”
“I was only sorry I’d been so stupid.
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