He was the beachcomber, or the old sailor with the black pearl (Ruth's tales), or the wastrel musician McClintock had described to him. Sheppard, passionately,—"he has my boundless gratitude, and devotion. "Going to befuddle himself between now and dinner," was the comment of Prudence. In this way, they reached Holborn Bridge. Would Gerald wish his friend to follow the man? He had hardly registered the decision that he had best do so, albeit with some reluctance, when his trained senses alerted him to an extraordinary circumstance. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. On the appearance of the thief-taker, Mrs. I’ll show it to you later. Excuse me an instant while I dismiss this person. Try and let him never regret it. I never intended it to be anything but a short story, for I had never completed even the shortest of stories unless forced to in grammar school.
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