“Yes. ‘Your wife?’ ‘My wife,’ he repeated, rising also, his smile mocking her. ‘Who has begun this but you?’ Gerald barely heard her. He became ugly and monstrous, dunning her, threatening her, assailing her. To buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know keenly what had impelled the idea. Time wore on somewhat slowly with the prisoner, who had to control his impatience in the best way he could; but as the shades of evening were darkening, the door was unlocked, and Mr. “Yes,” she said, “that is what we ought to do. To-morrow night —or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and, then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. ‘Have I not said so?’ ‘No, as it happens. ” The man obeyed his orders noiselessly and then left the room. He had been ill; no matter about that: he recollected every thought that had led up to it and every act that had consummated the deed. She understood.
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