They simply understood there was a greater need to get over the past than to talk about it. And God had let him do it! He was—and now he perfectly understood that he was—treading the queerest labyrinth a man had ever entered. These women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter! Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders! She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. To-morrow night —or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and, then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. They had scrubbed and dusted, torn down and hung up until noon. So far it had been plain sailing, and it had seemed fairly evident to go on: “I find it very difficult to answer your letter. Besides, there's something odd about the boy; for, though I questioned him pretty closely concerning his business, he declined answering my questions, and said he could only deliver his message to her ladyship. ” “You haven’t answered my question. ” “The truth!” There was a brief but intense silence. He reached out a hand gropingly, sagged, and toppled out of the chair to the floor, where he lay very still. It was enough that Spurlock had been taken aboard The Tigress. Anna sighed as she reflected that her sister had simply revelled in her indiscretions.
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