Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. I completed it according to the directions, you see, and it was a beautiful machine, a triangle sort of, with a steering column I built out of an old wheelbarrow and a hubcap. Across the blackboard the colored chalks flew like flights of variously tinted rockets as diagram after diagram flickered into being. Further on, there was a small chandler's shop, where Jack observed an old woman seated at the counter, attended by a little girl. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point already carried; “you shall!” The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from unnamable disgraces. “Thought so. On all hands Jack was cheered, and Jonathan hooted. “You!” she exclaimed. I won't have a beachcomber on the island. Prudence shook her head. “You’re our superstar!” Turning to her foster father, she was bear hugged again, squashing the white carnations. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances.
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