[What Necessity Knows by Lily Dougall]@TWC D-Link bookWhat Necessity Knows CHAPTER XIII 7/12
I thought they'd find me, and I'd got money to pay, but I got mixed up with the people that were asleep.
I gave the squaw one of your aunt's gold pieces for helping, but"-- with a sneer--"the passengers gave her money too.
I made sure she'd not tell on me, for if she had she'd have got in jail for stopping the train." "Puir body," said he; "like enough all she had seen o' men would make her think, too, she had no call to say anything, though she must have known of the hue and cry in the place." "More like she wanted to save herself from suspicion of what she had done," said Eliza, practically. She still stood before him on the path, the strong firm muscles of her frame holding her erect and still without effort of her will.
The stillness of her pose, the fashionableness of gown and hat, and the broad display of her radiant hair, made a painful impression on Bates as he looked, but the impression on two other men who went by just then was apparently otherwise.
They were a pair of young tourists who stared as they passed. "By Jove, what a magnificent girl!" said one to the other just before they were out of hearing.
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