Leaving the panel wide, Melusine dashed to the library door and flung
it open, racing into the hall. He had forgiven everybody. “She’s been up to no good, Sheila. The features
were indistinct, but was that not a halo of white about it? And the dark shadow
below, was that a cloak, or the habit of a nun?
Skirting the dancing, from which he had taken a breather—not from lack of
energy, but to escape the inanities of the young ladies he had partnered—Gerald
made his way to a side door in the saloon and opened it. ’ He
turned to the goggling footman and thrust him towards the coach. He smiled. Her first orders were to summon the rest of her servants to
make immediate preparations for her departure for Lancashire. "In with him!"
"Ay—ay, yer hon'r," cried the foremost chairman, lending a helping hand. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. Her head felt absurdly like one of those noddling
manikins in the Hong-Kong curio-shops. ’
‘Secret passage, is it?’ The sergeant seemed to brighten at this. ‘Neither do I,’ he responded, frowning, ‘but for Gerald’s sake, I’ll do anything
I can.
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