"After all, he is my father, Hoddy; and I cursed
him. Go away now, there’s a good lad. “Of course he may merely have been telling her who we were, but I
think it improbable. Would you like to see them at work?"
"Lead on, Macduff!"
Ah Cum raised the skirt of his fluttering blue silk robe and stored the bill away
in a trouser wallet. “I had the pleasure of—er—meeting you more than once, I believe. Love was joy, and joyous she was when alone. Shouting to his companion, even as they passed by
where I hid myself, he called out that he thought to find you at the convent. She was a trained being—trained by an implacable mother to one
end. ‘They cannot be worse than mine
in English, monsieur. There was a bare chance that he had been
mistaken. ’
A strangled sob escaped her as his thumb dug cruelly into the soft flesh of her
wrist. ‘And why not?’
‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do
not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. I change them in the morning at Cannon Street, and take
my book as I come down. "
"That is what I wanted to know," said Ruth gravely.
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