‘You are really not helping matters, my friend. Aroused by the sound of the church bells, he resolved, at whatever risk, to attend Divine service. He had already shown the covering envelope and its instructions to Ruth, and she had ignored or misunderstood the warning. Teddy handed her into the second-class compartment her season-ticket warranted, and declared she was “simply splendid. No doubt he has been drinking for days without eating substantially, and his heart gave out. “Before I met you I was deluded into receiving upon friendly terms a man named Hill, who passed himself off as Meysey Hill the railway man, but who was in reality an Englishman in poor circumstances. He loaded the launch with a thousand pounds—all she could carry—and started home immediately after sundown; but even then he lost from a hundred to a hundred and fifty pounds before he had the stuff cached in McClintock's bamboo-covered sawdust pit. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. To preserve herself, however, from destitution, or what she considered worse, she wedded a journeyman carpenter, named Sheppard. ‘I know her, ma’am, but I know next to nothing of her story. She shivered, more due to his presence than the changing weather. Then, though full of confidence, he half doubted his power of accomplishing his designs. The Victoria was Ah Cum's bread and butter. CHAPTER XXIX. Any natural fineness would be numbed by drink.
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