Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. The villain has enjoyed his security too long. “Stop! Don’t put your face there. Dizzily, she
grabbed at the mantel for support and, resting her head on her hands, paid no
heed to a betraying sound behind her—until an unexpected arm encircled her. South America was big; but ten thousand islands, scattered all over
the biggest ocean on the map! Nearly all of them clear of the ship lanes and
beaten tracks! The best thing he could do would be to call up the Quai d'Orsay
and turn over the job to Lecocq. She sat on the edge of the bed
—the wardress was too busy with the flood of arrivals that day to discover that
she had it down—and her skin was shivering from the contact of these garments. A slight rain fell at the time; and a few leaves, caught by the eddies,
whirled around. I cannot answer that question. ‘You must think me a fool, mademoiselle. It was among artistic people. They took her fingerprints sitting at
the gray metal desk of Officer Nolte, the virile young
buck who had brought her in. "Read that.
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