The same night he met Meddoes and Drummond together, the latter over from
Paris on a week’s leave from the Embassy. Spurlock knew exactly what he was doing, however: speculative mischief,
to see how she would act. . ’
But Major Alderley might have been an expert for all the sound he made as he
forced the lock with the heavy blade. She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long
gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was
traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality,
the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the
intended effect. The young ladies in the somewhat mixed society amongst which he
moved neither satisfied his taste nor appealed in any way to his affections. "
"A queer case;" and the doctor passed on. ‘I do not know your Gérard.
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