I was sitting up, lamenting your
departure, dear Thames, when, hearing an odd noise, I went to the landing, and,
by the light of a dark lantern, saw Jack Sheppard, stealing up stairs, followed by
two men with crape on their faces. My heart would speak if it
could, for it is very full. Sheppard, with a laugh that cut the ears of those
who listened to it like a razor,—"Do not despair! And who or what shall give me
comfort when my son is gone? I have wept till my eyes are dry,—suffered till
my heart is broken,—prayed till the voice of prayer is dumb,—and all of no
avail. ‘Can’t you trust me a little?’
His touch sent shivers running through her, but Melusine did not withdraw her
hand. She thought
of her aunt and that purse that was dropped on the table, and of many
troublesome and ill-requited kindnesses; she thought of the help of the Widgetts,
of Teddy’s admiration; she thought, with a new-born charity, of her father, of
Manning’s conscientious unselfishness, of Miss Miniver’s devotion. “And you must please not look at me as though I were an executioner,” she
declared lightly. ‘The whole town is talking. Innumerable little puzzles were instantly solved. “Well,” he said at last slowly, “I’ll pay it.
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