[Controlcambios-bdoo] d his eyes on New

[Abubakr Eckes]

Ng you and Beulah together

in Boston, and how she begged me to bring her home. But--for God's
sake!--I didn't do it. I didn't have to. Mary believed. How could she
help believing--the gossip, and poor little Beulah sobbing out her
story. Beulah said

it was you who got

the best of her. She didn't want to say it, she faltered and choked
on the lie, but _his_ eyes were on her,
and his voice urged her, and so she had to say it. The very way she
carried on made the lie seem true. "Well, Mary did just what he
expected her to do. She promised to help Beulah; she told Beulah she
would make you make amends. Then she rushed out of the house and met
you coming along the cliff road--coming along all
spruced up, and with the look about you of one going to meet a lady.
Just as _he_ planned. "What more could Mary
ask in the way of evidence than the sight of you in that place at
that time? Of course she

was convinced, completely convinced. And she behaved just as he knew
she would behave--she denounced you, and threw your ring in your
face, and raced off home. And you behaved just as he knew you would
behave. He was a slick devil! He knew your pride and temper; he
counted on them. He
knew you would be too proud to chase Mary down and demand a full
explanation; that you would be too angry to sift the
thing to the bottom. You packed up and went off to New York that
night to join your ship--and
that was just what he wanted you to do. "Next morning you were
gone, and--they picked up little Beulah at the bottom of the cliffs.
And you gone in haste, without

a word. They said she jumped--desertion, despair, you know what they
would make of it. The gossip--and Ab
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: elaborately.zip
Type: application/octet-stream
Size: 11042 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : /pipermail/controlcambios-bdoo/attachments/20100327/d5b34445/attachment.obj