"If you'll kindly bring me a glass, I'll drink it here," she said to the barmaid.
"Certainly, ma'am;" and Susan rapidly drained her glass, and walked home with her empty jug.
If that night the heavy curtain which shrouded the unknown future could have been lifted, and to George and Susan Dixon there could have been revealed their unwritten history, with what shuddering awe would each have turned from the sin-darkened record, and cried with one of old: "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing?"
FOOTNOTE:
[A] Reprinted, by permission, from "The Opposite House," published by T. Woolmer, 2 Castle Street, E.C.
