Their houses became a refuge of ill repute, the source of rumor and intrigue in the highest echelons of society. They were talking of “Alcide,” as they often did in those days. ” He dropped his eye-glass with a clatter. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. She went to her bedroom, but she did not go to bed. Sheppard, who witnessed this occurrence with dismay, looked timorously at Wood, in expectation of some hint being given as to the course she had better pursue; but, receiving none, for the carpenter was too much agitated to attend to her, she ventured to express a fear that she was intruding. “Lift up one corner of the curtain for me. For some seconds of voluminous thinking they looked at the ring between them, and neither spoke. Mike’s a fireman and he’s got kids too. I was at work at it yesterday and the day before. She laughed a little bitterly.
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