If I could but——”
To escape from her thoughts she began to undress, humming a light tune to
herself, though her eyes were hot with unshed tears, and the sobs kept rising in
her throat. The major
hailed him with a show of relief. All the assemblage,
accompanied by Jonathan, set off in this direction, when it turned out that the
supposed housebreaker was a harmless beggar, who had been found asleep under
a hedge. ’
Chapter Three
Captain Hilary Roding listened with only half an ear to the long-winded report
being given by Sergeant Trodger, his idle gaze wandering over the congested
traffic of Piccadilly and the many pedestrians weaving a hazardous path through
it. Anna,
who was disposed to be sharply critical, could find no fault with it. ”
“Suppose he comes and talks to me?”
“A girl can always keep a man at a distance if she cares to do it. Not far
from him was a knot of lads drinking, swearing, and playing at dice as eagerly
and as skilfully as any of the older hands. They had heard nothing, seen nothing. Edgeworth Bess, who passed for Sheppard's wife, was secured. Horrible memories of things
seen beneath the microscope of the baser forms of life crawled across her mind
and set her shuddering with imagined irritations. “One would think I had said nothing about the matter. The next hour makes, or mars
you for ever. You have not forgotten——”
“I have forgotten nothing?” he answered, enigmatically. There was no longer any risk in
association with her.
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