"I didn't mean to give offence," replied Sheppard, sulkily. It ceased to be the symbol of liberty and a remote and quite abstracted person, and became suddenly and very disagreeably the token of a large and portentous body visible and tangible. There were sidetables and a writing table, similarly buried in bric-a-brac, and the chair by the French doors could hardly be seen for blankets. People were not slaves to their gods as they are now, oppressed and unhappy, chained to their mortality and suffering so that they may one day enter an imaginary Heaven. The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. If there were any pearls, none came into the light. The beachcomber, the lowest in the human scale; and some day he would enter into this estate. ‘Scream and you are dead,’ he snapped, and released her mouth so that he might open the door. I said to myself at once, ‘Either this is a coincidence or the caper sauce. The mere fact that he was there in the train alongside her, helping her, sitting opposite to her in the dining-car, presently sleeping on a seat within a yard of her, made her heart sing until she was afraid their fellow passengers would hear it. “You’ve been sneaking out just as often as Mary Lucia. ‘That is good,’ she said with satisfaction, ‘for I was compelled on Saturday to abandon the chase. That's how I finally got wind of it. But for the next few days he avoided Cheveney like the plague.
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