There was no one at home, and I was coming away when I saw that the door was open. ’ To Gerald’s relief, the entrance of the butler interrupted them, relieving him of the necessity to explain himself. CHAPTER XXI. Sheppard, eagerly. ’ A strangled sob escaped her as his thumb dug cruelly into the soft flesh of her wrist. She was aware of him—a silk-hatted, shiny-black figure on the opposite side of the Avenue; and then, abruptly and startlingly, he crossed the road and saluted and spoke to her. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me out of that. By following her he had discovered her secret nook in the rocks. To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. The sky was dripping a wet, slow rain that had forced the city’s inhabitants into taxicabs and dingy cafeterias, the day wholly ruined for all except the insane schizophrenics and her. Occasionally she would be missing a sock or a bra, so she took to storing those things in her gym locker. “In the end,” it seemed to be thinking, “they embalmed me with the utmost respect—sound spices chosen to endure—the best! I took my world as I found it. Neither he nor Gerald chose to attire themselves in full military rig on fashionable occasions such as this. He stood up abruptly and went to the window. “A lady, Dunster.
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