He righted a chair and sat in it, his face in his hands. "Ah!" he exclaimed, "a letter, beginning 'dearest Aliva,'—that's your mother's name, Thames. Kneebone, who did not appear in the slightest degree disconcerted by his cool reception, each sank carelessly into a chair, and made himself at home in a moment. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. The tension was palpable. “What’s the objection?” “I suppose she ought to know?” said Gwen to her mother, trying to alter the key of the conversation. It was a hoax, it was the only thing possible, until she heard Cathy say, “Let me hold those for you. Water soaked her through in five minutes. ’ His eyes found the girl again, and he added rancorously, ‘Giving birth to you. . Given the proper incentive, who could say that he might not likewise go nobly to some fine end? She thrilled.
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