He has taken more than one step towards the gallows already. His arms were naturally big and his chest was covered with a smattering of soft hairs. He learnt that his sister was privately married—the name or rank of her husband could not be ascertained—and living in retirement in an obscure dwelling in the Borough, where she had given birth to a son. Here, without a glimpse of daylight; visited by no one except Austin at stated intervals, who neither answered a question nor addressed a word to him; fed upon the worst diet, literally mouldy bread and ditch-water; surrounded by stone walls; with a flagged floor for his pillow, and without so much as a blanket to protect him from the death-like cold that pierced his frame,—Jack's stout heart was subdued, and he fell into the deepest dejection, ardently longing for the time when even a violent death should terminate his sufferings. 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. . Fortunately, the window was not far from the ground; so opening it gently, he dropped into a backyard, and from thence got into the street. Then he stood up and hailed a fiacre. Walking to the station with him. I have pleaded with her—no wonder that I have pleaded with her in vain. "We work together no more. O God! O God!" And he appeared convulsed with agony. Here was Ruth Enschede—sick of love! Love—something the world would always keep hidden from her, at least human love.
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