” He did not appear to require any answer to his question. Ruth broke the exquisite pose by summoning Ah Cum, who was lured into a lecture upon the water-clock. But tell me one thing I don’t understand—tell me one thing: How can you help it by coming down into the battle and the mire? That’s the thing that concerns me. "Oh!" she gasped. On weighing the matter over, he grew so uneasy that he resolved to descend, and inform him of his misgivings. ‘As I have said, it was a quarrel between the vicomte and Monsieur Charvill. ‘Can’t have been a common housebreaker, you see,’ Hilary explained to Lucilla, quite unnecessarily. There was first the Avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. He had been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton, of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. He would condemn her to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. "By the powers!" he added, turning his lantern full upon the face of the captive, "he's a nice gennteel-lookin' kiddy, I must say. While he was thus occupied, Thames, prompted by an unaccountable feeling of curiosity, took up the penknife which the other had just used, and examined the haft.
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