‘Keep your distance! You dare to tell me I cannot refuse?’ He glared at
the girl. His
assistance came too late. "Odd's life!" cried Gay, in astonishment; "is this slight-made stripling Jack
Sheppard? Why, I expected to see a man six foot high at the least, and as broad
across the shoulders as our friend Figg. Because of the woman’s pregnant status, a
panic had spread in the county that a serial murderer was
afoot, but she had made sure to copy the crimes of a
famous serial killer that she had read about in the paper
to cover herself and mislay blame. Every window,
from the groundfloor to the garret had its occupant, and the roofs were covered
with spectators. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. “Do you understand what I am talking about? It’s no good
if you don’t. “It is such a very respectable boarding-house,” she said.
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