She became aware that at regular intervals a light flashed upon her face and a bodiless eye regarded her, and this, as the night wore on, became a torment. Because of the Dance. The ledge, along which he crawled, was about a foot wide. She made a slow tour of the front of the house without success, and then started back along the rooms behind, dragging open the drapes each time to get just enough light to recognise what was on the walls. 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. Chapter XXII AN OLD FOOL Lady Ferringhall made room for him on the sofa by her side. There was no mistaking his intentions this time. “What is the good of talking?” said her brother. In the adjacent apartment Ann Veronica found a middle-aged woman with a tired face under the tired hat she wore, sitting at a desk opening letters while a dusky, untidy girl of eight-or nine-and-twenty hammered industriously at a typewriter. Drummond had made an abominable mistake. "Let us in," said the Master, rapping his truncheon authoritatively against the boards, "or we'll force an entrance. There was nothing in his manner to suggest the misery of the preceding night.
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