She could smell him almost as strongly as she could the new paint on the fire escape walls, along with the wool suit and the weird polyester smell of his wet umbrella. She had imagined that prisons were white-tiled places, reeking of lime-wash and immaculately sanitary. He had an objective now. " "Oh. ’ ‘You say—what?’ gasped Melusine. Torment! And so Ruth discovered him. "What is it?" "Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife! Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?" As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. This young man did not drink because he sought the false happiness that lured men to the bottle. He saw the expression on the girl's face and understood what it signified, that it was the reflected pattern of his own. “She will take her risk,” she answered. “Wild horses—not if they have all the mounted police in London—shan’t keep me out. ‘Laisse-moi,’ she threw at him, her brief attack of sobs already ended, although the trace of tears on her cheeks bore witness to its sincerity. But, alas! she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. Now she knew why the soldiers had not caught him. "It is the fiend!" she exclaimed, recoiling.
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