” Sir John smiled. “This,” he exclaimed, “must be either the indifference of an utterly callous nature, or it may be—ye gods, it may be—innocence. Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. "Caught!" shouted the head-turnkey. She didn’t choose her man. She wanted to cry out upon herself for the uttermost fool in existence. As it happens sometimes, the idea stepped down from the dream into the reality; and he saw it more clearly now than he had seen it in the dream. The sunshine was brilliant, the air mild. He saw the flames burst from the windows, and perhaps in that maddening spectacle suffered torture equivalent to some of the crimes he had committed. The telegram dispatched, his obligation cancelled, Ah Cum proceeded homeward, chuckling occasionally. You mustn’t do things like that. I pledged my thumb that, dead or alive, I'd pay the wager if I lost; and I should like to be as good as my word. Somehow or other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of those women with whom he had been brought into contact.
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