Read "The Escape of the Notorious Sir William Heans" by William Gosse Hay online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
The world will hardly make much progress until the wicked man is segregated; he tires out so many good men.
When Abelia, half-fainting, had been carried in to the nameless woman--and an explanation vouchsafed--Heans hurried out again, stepping his way swiftly towards the waterway. Quite clearly, as he approached, he heard the sound of suppressed weeping. Pushing aside the dank obstructing bush, he crept in beneath. The opening was some fifteen inches high by a foot broad, and ornamented by a rough frame of concrete, in which the trowel had dug like a dagger. It had been opened to drain the upper side of the wall into the house-gutter, which here hugged the lower, but the roots of the great heliotrope had cracked gutter, hole, and wall. Not content with shaking the foundations, the tree had thrust two black arms through the fissure, pushing beyond its scented flowers.