CHAPTER XXVII His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent thought. At least, he would always be able to take care of Ruth. It was noon when the caravan reached the tower of the water-clock. " "I will go, if you will consent to meet me at midnight near the old house in Wych Street," replied Jack. For now, I fear there is something worse, something more present. “No, he wouldn’t come here of all places—just now. "And Jack?" "Gone too," sobbed his daughter. ” “Agreed,” said Ann Veronica. As O'Higgins signed the hotel register, his keen glance took in the latest signatures. They looked out over the city, grim and silent now, for it was long past midnight. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear.
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