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Sheppard," said the Doctor, trying to keep his face grave. "Strike them on the head, too." "Umph!" No woman likes to be classed properly, no matter where she belongs. "I never interfere, Doctor Blecker; I may advise.
Paul Blecker, heart-anatomist, laughed when this woman, with the aching brain and the gnawing hunger at heart, seized on the single, Christ-like love of McKinstry, a common, bigoted man, and made it her master and helper. Her instinct was wiser than he, being drifted by God's under-currents of eternal order.
By this time he would have been Judge Blecker, with a portly voice, flushed face, and thick eyelids. But he had scuffled and edged his way in the thin air of Connecticut as errand-boy, daguerreotypist, teacher, doctor; so he came into the Gurney garden that night, shrewd, defiant, priding himself on detecting shams.
For a moment the hot blood in the little Doctor's veins throbbed fiercely, as he rose slowly, and, taking his lantern, stood looking down. "In an hour," glancing critically at him, "he will be dead." Something within him coolly added, "And Paul Blecker a murderer."
Grey was no theorist about it: all that she knew was, that, when Paul Blecker stood near her, for the first time in her life she was not alone, that, when he spoke, his words were but more forcible utterances of her own thought, that, when she thought of leaving him, it was like drawing the soul from her living body, to leave it pulseless, dead. Yet she would do it.
Blecker was coarse, an ill-bred man, he suspected, noting, too, the angry repression in his eyes, as he stood leaning on the gate, looking in at the Fort, for they had reached it by this time.
They laughed at him, but were oddly fond of him; he was a sharp disciplinarian, but was too quiet, they always had thought, to have much pluck. Blecker, glancing at his watch, saw that it was eleven; the moon was sinking fast, her level rays fainter and bluer, as from some farther depth of rest and quiet than before.
"I thought you would come to me, Doctor Blecker." "Call me Paul," roughly. "I was coarser born and bred than you. I want to think that matters nothing to you." She looked up proudly. "You know it matters nothing. I am not vulgar." "No, Grey. But it is curious, but no one ever called me Paul, as boy or man. It is a sign of equality; and I've always had, in the mélée, the underneath taint about me.
To Blecker, whose fancy was made sultry to-night by some passion we know nothing of, he looked like a bloated spider coming out of the cell where his victims were. "Gorging himself, while they and the country suffer the loss," he muttered. But Paul was a hot-brained young man. We should only have seen a vulgar, commonplace trickster in politics, such as the people make pets of.
Blecker had hit on the one valve of the shut-up nature, the obstinate point of self-reliant volition in a life that had been one long drift of circumstance.
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