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He could not quite make her out; a new type. "Taber," said the manager; "Taber is the name." For some reason she did not then understand, Ruth did not offer the information that Taber had another name. "This is very fine of you, Miss...." "Enschede." "Ah. Well, come back in half an hour. I'll send for Wu Fang. He speaks English. Not a job he may care about; but he's a good sport.
The iron slipped from his face, leaving it blank with astonishment. "Your wife?" "His lawful wife," said Ruth, with fine dignity. For a moment none of them stirred; then slowly Enschede turned away. To Spurlock's observing eye, Enschede's wrinkles multiplied and the folds in his clothes.
This incredible scene robbed him of the sense of locomotion. But his glance roved, to the door through which Ruth had gone, to Enschede's drooping back. Unexpectedly he found himself speeding toward the father. "Enschede!" he called. Enschede halted. "Well?" he said, as Spurlock reached his side. "Are you a human being, to leave her thus?" "It is better so. You heard her. What she said is true."
Mac the old gossip knew about everything going on in that part of the world; and if Enschede was anything up to the picture the girl had drawn, McClintock would have heard of him, naturally. He might solve the riddle. All of which proves that the doctor also had his moments of distraction, with this difference: he was not distracted from his subject matter. "So endeth the first lesson," he said.
She intercepted the glance the spinsters exchanged, and immediately sensed that she had said too much. There was no way of recalling the words; so she waited. "Miss Enschede such an odd name! are you French?" "Oh, no. Pennsylvania Dutch. But I have never seen America. I was born on an island in the South Seas. I am on my way to an aunt who lives in Hartford, Connecticut."
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He took into his soul some of the father's misery, some of the daughter's, to mingle with his own. Enschede, to have starved his heart as well as Ruth's because, having laid a curse, he knew not how to turn aside from it! How easily he might have forgotten the unworthy mother in the love of the child! And this day to hear her voice lifted in a quality of anathema.
To-day, however, he broke the monotony. "An American. Enschede that's a queer name." "I'm a queer girl," she replied with a smile. Perhaps this was the real turning point: the hour in which the disordered mind began permanently to readjust itself. "I've been wondering, until this morning, if you were real." "I've been wondering, too." "Are you a real nurse?" "Yes." "Professional?"
When he was up and about, the idea of flight would return. But how far could he fly on a few hundred? True, he might find a job somewhere; but every footstep from behind...! "Who is she? Where does she come from?" "You mean Miss Enschede?" "Yes. That dress she has on my mother might have worn it." He was beginning to notice things, then? The doctor was pleased. The boy was coming around.
So, forthwith, without any preliminaries beyond introductions, he began the ceremony; and shortly Ruth Enschede became Ruth Spurlock, for better or for worse. Spurlock gave his full name and tremblingly inscribed it upon the certificate of marriage.
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