CHAPTER II. Spurling had retired for the night. The infant’s body, now missing its pulverized head, was still twitching among the blood-soaked ruins of corpses. It was always jabbing him with white-hot barbs, waking or sleeping. She returned home to the Beck house soaked and soggy. She had a feeling as though something had dropped from her eyes, as though she had just discovered herself for the first time—discovered herself as a sleepwalker might do, abruptly among dangers, hindrances, and perplexities, on the verge of a cardinal crisis. ’ ‘I still think you ought to have waited, miss. “Yeah, where the hell were you? My friends would have driven you home when I came home if I could have found you. It was only a matter of time. More,’ he said, ‘but I’m told it’s the most amusing thing in London at the present time. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit, at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care, with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. The contest, however, though desperate, was brief.
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