She grasped at the right one, massaging where his grip had been and Gerald hoped he had not bruised her. His commissions this day would not fill his metal pipe with one wad of tobacco. It cost her seventy-seven dollars. Then the hotel manager struck his palms together sharply, and two Chinese "boys" came pattering in from the dining room. Much to her annoyance, therefore, Winifred was left alone with the woollendraper, who following up a maxim of his own, "that nothing was gained by too much bashfulness," determined to profit by the opportunity. They thought that she was her own mother. . “I see nothing of my sister,” she said. 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.
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