The Closing Scene 472 EPOCH THE FIRST. I should feel that I had been obliged to find some one else to fight my battles for me. Cathy stood in the bedroom hallway in her faded blue bathrobe. Sheppard, with a look, the wildness of which greatly alarmed her companion. She recalled that day of the typhoon and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs. The Victoria was Ah Cum's bread and butter. John moved closer to her, getting up from his roost by one bench, he joined her at the bench where she sat. “Only—I have come face to face—with something terrible, and wholly unexpected trouble. “When did you start?” She said between puffs. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. During all their long comradeship he had never so much as ventured to hold her fingers. She was alone with a deadly enemy.
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