Not since she had discovered it had Ruth touched or opened the mission Bible;
but to-night (the same upon which the wonderful manuscripts started on their
long and circuitous voyage to America) she was inexplicably drawn to it. “You permitted me then to call you my friend. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. Bribed by a
certain Sir Rowland Trenchard, Jonathan kidnapped the carpenter's adopted son,
Thames Darrell, and placed him in the hands of a Dutch Skipper, with orders to
throw him overboard when he got out to sea; and though this was proved as clear
as day, the rascal managed matters so adroitly, and gave such a different
complexion to the whole affair, that he came off with flying colours. good, miss. Sheppard in the asylum, and take her this, and send her that;—and I've
never prevented you, though such mistaken liberality's enough to provoke a
saint. "Tom," continued Kneebone, calling to the shop-boy, "don't go home. ’
Miss Froxfield regarded him in some interest.
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