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of wood from beside the fireplace. "Go," I said, in a low voice;
irresolutely for a moment, and then he left the house. He came
in at us.
"Have a heed what you do," he said. "The woman is mine, and I
as a Scotchman."
"We shall see that," I cried, springing forward, but he was already
gathering darkness.
For a month or more after this things went smoothly with us. I
Sometimes when I was at work in my laboratory she would slip inside
At first this intrusion annoyed me, but by degrees, finding that
remain. Encouraged by this concession, she gradually came to move
after gaining a little every day during some weeks, she at last
beside me whenever I worked. In this position she used, still
very useful by holding my pens, test-tubes, or bottles, and handing
fact of her being.html">being a human being, and looking upon her as a useful
miss her on the few occasions when she was not at her post. I have
fix my results better in my mind. The girl must have had a
which I let fall in this way, without, of course, understanding in
discharge a volley of chemical equations and algebraic symbols at
shake her head, under the impression, no doubt, that she was being
never put her foot over the threshold without looking carefully out
this I knew that she suspected that her fellow-countryman was still
off. She did something else which was significant. I had an old
among the rubbish. She found this one day, and at once
with the cartridges in a little bag beside it, and whenever I went
with me. In my absence she would always bolt the door. Apart from
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