It is no good going into that. After you went he got up and took refuge in the preparation-room. I had to go at a moment’s notice. 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. The papers are continually wondering what has become of ‘Alcide. Go out there and head him off, will you? Tell him anything you like, but don’t let him in, and don’t tell him Melusine is here. “I meant to say good-bye to you to-night. But for the next few days he avoided Cheveney like the plague. Melusine shrugged. We have seen great and sober-minded men come to this unholy city, and become degenerates. It was the blood she found that cemented her decision that her foster daughter was a criminal. “You must be the Miss Pellissier of whom David has told me so much,” he said, shyly. The half-nude brown bodies of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South Seas. They talked lightly and smoked cigarettes till Anna, with a little laugh, threw open the window and let in the cool night air.
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