He heard the struggle on the landing, the fall of the heavy body, the groan,—and excited almost to frenzy by his fears, he succeeded in forcing open the door. "So, you're admiring my cabinet, Sir Rowland," he remarked, with a sinister smile; "it is generally admired; and, sometimes by parties who afterwards contribute to the collection themselves,—ha! ha! This skull," he added, pointing to a fragment of mortality in the case beside them, "once belonged to Tom Sheppard, the father of the lad I spoke of just now. She could now see to read; so she stirred the manuscript about until she came upon the first page. Perhaps you'll give me in return some token, by which I may remind you of this occurrence, in case we meet again. Martin’s crush. A constant attendant at court, he had the mortification to see every one promoted but himself, and thus bewails his ill-luck. "He's a base, deceitful, tyrannical, hoary-headed libertine—that's what he is. Even now I do not understand. She formed a habit which embarrassed Spurlock greatly, but at first he dared not complain. His grey eyes burned under his shaggy eyebrows. 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. ‘Only perhaps I can more readily do so if you will put down that pistol.
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