She was clad in fresh linen, but still wore the riding-habit she had
appropriated, having sponged out the spots of blood late last night and left it to
dry in the kitchens. ’
Melusine gave it up. A very small settlement, mostly natives. He took a handful of the gravelly mud, with which the
platform was covered, and threw the small pebbles, one by one, towards the
gleam. The name of this damsel was Edgeworth Bess; and, as her
fascinations will not, perhaps, be found to be without some influence upon the
future fortunes of her boyish admirer, we have thought it worth while to be thus
particular in describing them. Ruth, having
decided a course for herself—that of renunciation—and having the strength to
keep it, met these advances in precisely the mood they were offered. Capes flashed to an understanding of her intention, sprang to his feet, and
opened the door for her retreat. ”
“Coffee! Bah!”
The newcomer picked her way across the floor with daintily uplifted skirts, and
subsided into a deck chair of stretched canvas.
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