CHAPTER VII The astonishing collapse of Spurlock created a tableau of short duration. The wish was vain: and, endeavouring to banish every earthly thought, he addressed himself deeply and sincerely to prayer. "I heard his voice; but I saw them on the stairs, and durst not approach him, for fear of giving the alarm. " "You hear, my son," said the widow eagerly. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. On Tuesday night, she was rather better, and I had left her for a short time, as I thought, asleep on the sofa in the little parlour of which she is so fond —" "Well," exclaimed Jack. "Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that? Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning?" "No. There's not his peer among the peerage. He left his office at 5:39 according to her watch.
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