CHAPTER I. And such skirts as Ann Veronica had had
when she entered the valley of Saas were safely packed away in the hotel, and
she wore a leather belt and loose knickerbockers and puttees—a costume that
suited the fine, long lines of her limbs far better than any feminine walking-dress
could do. Their conversation degenerated again and again
into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper. The next instant, he was launched into eternity!
Scarcely had he been turned off a moment, when a man with swarthy features
leapt into the cart with an open clasp-knife in his hand, and, before he could be
prevented, severed the rope, and cut down the body. Before a word could
be said, however, a slight noise was heard in the chimney, and Jack with his
irons on descended from it. “Compromise and kindness. "
Sheppard immediately complied with the painter's request; while Gay and Figg
drew back on one side, and Hogarth on the other. The door was too strong,
and too well secured, to break open,—the walls too thick: but the ceiling,—if he
could reach it—there, he doubted not, he could make an outlet.
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