For an instant, Gerald wished the rest of the world away that he might go to her and administer appropriate comfort. It would have been very well if she had been some common creature who might have been bought off. "There he is!" "I fear not," said her father, with a doubtful shake of the head. Mrs. 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. "Judging from what you tell me, I've no doubt he's the illegitimate offspring of some handsome, but lowborn profligate; in which case, he'll neither have name, nor wealth for his inheritance. But did you ever hear of a djinn in a blue-serge coat? Stitched in!" Something like this was always rushing into his throat; and he had to sink his nails into his palms to stop his mouth. She had never felt so cold, she felt even colder than she had in the water. There he was, standing with a group of men who she presumed to be the other richest men in the world. “To the best of my belief, I have not a single English acquaintance in the city. ‘Well, I thought as how someone in the house in Paddington might see me hanging about outside like. ’ ‘Your husband?’ Gerald tutted. And Rollo, who had been waiting for some encouraging sound, presented himself at the doorway. We went to the Embassy. ’ ‘And if she can’t?’ asked Lucy.
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