She had hardly noticed the loss of her dagger, so strong had been the waves of relief that attacked her on hearing that Jack had returned from death’s door. ’ He only laughed. Wanton!… This, then, was what her father had meant. “Amazing. She allowed herself to be ejected, therefore, and retired to the parlour after cleansing the blood from her hands and her own slight wound in the kitchen. Sheppard, with a deep sigh, perceiving that her benefactor hesitated to pronounce the word. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. But it is all over now, and presently there will be some one else. She went down, flushed and light-hearted, to the Widgetts’ after lunch to make some final arrangements and then, as soon as her aunt had retired to lie down for her usual digestive hour, took the risk of the servants having the enterprise to report her proceedings and carried her bag and hold-all to the garden gate, whence Teddy, in a state of ecstatic service, bore them to the railway station. Even were she to get an opportunity to scream, it would be some time before such a call, unprecedented though it might be, brought the nuns so much out of their absorption that they interrupted their prayer to investigate.
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