The city presented a terrible picture of devastation. Why did the beggar hang on down there, when he could have enjoyed all that civilization had to offer? Yes, he would be mighty glad to see McClintock; and the sooner he came the better. She began to think persistently of Capes, and it seemed to her now that for some weeks at least she must have been thinking persistently of him unawares. " Something in the child's voice, something in her manner, warned the spinster that her well-meaning inquisitiveness had received a set-back and that it would be dangerous to press it forward again. "My name will only be remembered as that of a robber," he mused; "but it shall be remembered as that of a bold one: and this night's achievement, if it does nothing else, shall prevent me from being classed with the common herd of depredators. "'Odd's! bodikins!" cried Jack, rubbing his cheek, "I'm in luck to-day. "Would you expose yourself to fresh risk? If it hadn't been for her you wouldn't have been placed in your late jeopardy. "But what, may I ask, arouses the thought?" The doctor was in high good humour. Past her shot the little old lady in the bonnet, running incredibly fast, but otherwise still alertly respectable, and she was making a strange threatening sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden—“B-rr-r-r-r—!” and pawing with black-gloved hands. With astonishment, Gerald saw a rheumy film rimming his old commander’s eyes. They sat on a wooden bench that overlooked the less aromatic part of the lake, deeper and not as frequented by geese. It may be treacherous, it may lay up a store of future woe; but it insures present happiness, and that is sufficient. The chair had extension arms over which a man might comfortably dangle his legs. Then he was to arrest you and bring you home to me. ~THE END~ [Illustration: Distinctive Pictures Photoplay The Ragged Edge MIMI PALMERI AS RUTH ENSCHEDE ALFRED LUNT AS HOWARD SPURLOCK] [Illustration: Distinctive Pictures Photoplay The Ragged Edge A SCENE FROM THE PHOTOPLAY] [Illustration: Distinctive Pictures Photoplay The Ragged Edge A SCENE FROM THE PHOTOPLAY] [Illustration: Distinctive Pictures Photoplay The Ragged Edge A SCENE FROM THE PHOTOPLAY] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Ragged Edge, by Harold MacGrath *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAGGED EDGE *** ***** This file should be named 15614-8.
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