“The one who used to live at Lyndmore. I swore I would
bring your husband to the gallows,—would plunge you in such want, such
distress, that you should have no alternative but the last frightful resource of
misery,—and I also swore, that if you had a son he should share the same fate as
his father. Not like my father. ’
Gerald grinned. The jealous burn at his eyes
subsided and his finger came up. A thing
which had mystified her since childhood, a smouldering wonder why it should
be, and until now she had never felt the urge to investigate. ‘You don’t
even know what it means, do you?’
Melusine frowned. The challenge gave her
courage. “I brought a man with me who is posted outside,” he remarked. "
Still his brain refused to assimilate the news or to deduce the tremendous
importance of it. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father,
taking his lonely way to sea. "
Upon which he drew the trigger of the pistol, which, luckily for the individual
against whom it was aimed, flashed in the pan.
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