” It was nearly half an hour before they dared ask him the question. Sebastian grabbed a rock from a corner and bashed in its skull. And, when I have seen him pining away before my eyes, getting thinner and thinner every day, I have sometimes thought my prayers were heard. He would always see the picture of the huge, raw-boned Dutchman, haranguing and thundering the word of God into the dull ears of South Sea Islanders, who, an hour later, would be carrying fruit penitently to their wooden images. Trodger laid down their muskets and turned on them. 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. “It’s odd—I have no doubt in my mind that what we are doing is wrong,” he said. Of course, it was ridiculous, this inclination to assist the fugitive, based as it was upon an intangible university idea. His eyes swept down and Melusine felt the quiver at her lips where he gazed.
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