‘And so you sneak back,’ she threw at him, ‘like the jackal that you are. ”
“You are really going on the stage, then?” he said slowly. ’
‘Ain’t it? Want me to give you some time with her? Not that I think she’ll tell
you anything. "One last embrace. ’
‘Don’t be too sure,’ said Miss Froxfield darkly, with a mischievous glance at
her betrothed. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. She gained her
room, and slammed her door and locked it as though she feared violence and
pursuit. ]
THE RAGGED EDGE
BY HAROLD MACGRATH
AUTHOR OF DRUMS OF JEOPARDY, ETC. ”
She stood up and held her arms toward him. You're the first widow I ever heard of who could
withstand that lure. And, if it had not been for a taste for plotting, which was
continually getting him into scrapes, he might have been accounted a respectable
member of society. Jack affected to close the door, but left it
slightly ajar.
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