with his arms jostling mine beneath Eva Denison’s senseless form.
“Leave her to me,” he cried fiercely. “You fool,” he added in a lower key, “do you think I’d let any harm come to her?”
I looked him in the bright and honest eyes that had made me trust him in the beginning. And I did not utterly distrust him yet. Rather was the guile on my side as I drew back and watched Rattray lift the young girl tenderly, and slowly
with his arms jostling mine beneath Eva Denison’s senseless form.
“Leave her to me,” he cried fiercely. “You fool,” he added in a lower key, “do you think I’d let any harm come to her?”
I looked him in the bright and honest eyes that had made me trust him in the beginning. And I did not utterly distrust him yet. Rather was the guile on my side as I drew back and watched Rattray lift the young girl tenderly, and slowly
