Well, if she survives the accident—as the blood, who styles himself Sir Cecil, fancies she may do—this ring will make my fortune by leading to the discovery of the chief parties concerned in this strange affair. If ever the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. Now I do. He was standing by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small casket from him. No mercenary consideration influences me. He turned back at once. Instantly seizing it, the young man placed it in the carriage, shut the door, and commanded his servants to drive off. The horse-soldiers wheeled round and cleared a path: the foot closed in upon the cart. ‘Not here. He was in misery; he was paying for last night's debauch. If only we are not divided. Then she went in and up-stairs, hesitated on the landing, and finally, a little breathless and with an air of great dignity, opened the door and walked into Ann Veronica’s room. She turned to face him and he kissed her. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment.
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