At length, about three o'clock, as the first glimmer of dawn became visible
through the barred casements of the round-house, the rattling of bolts and chains
at the outer door told that some one was admitted. Into one of these he waded and rolled and
rolled, despite her commands. A gaunt, powerful man: no feature of his face decided, and yet
for all that it had the significance of a countenance hewn out of rock. I’ve made
up my mind. Now,
Sir, will you please to follow me?"
Mr. "
"But I was intoxicated!"
"So was the man you just fought in this room. You are very kind. Not a moment is to be lost. He was a tall man and fair, with bluish eyes that were rather protuberant, and
long white hands of which he made a display. ‘Beg pardon, miss, but I’m told as how—’ She broke off, her eyes widening,
her jaw dropping open. Contrasted with the confused
movement and presences of a Fabian meeting, or the inexplicable enthusiasm
behind the suffrage demand, with the speeches that were partly egotistical
displays, partly artful manoeuvres, and partly incoherent cries for unsoundly
formulated ends, compared with the comings and goings of audiences and
supporters that were like the eddy-driven drift of paper in the street, this long,
quiet, methodical chamber shone like a star seen through clouds. He stamped
his last letter as Annabel entered. Got detained in the City,
and——”
Then he met the fixed, breathless gaze of those wonderful eyes from the other
side of the table, and he, too, broke off in the middle of his sentence. “You seem to be taking our little joke more seriously than it deserves,
Ferringhall,” he remarked.
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