Sheppard, and regarding her with an
insolent and threatening glance. "Come," said Wild, turning authoritatively to Jack,—"you have overstayed your
time. . She felt a cheat
and a sneak to his unsuspecting retreating back. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. And
when she learned that she had been doubly cheated, what then? His thoughts
began to fall on her side of the scales, and his own misery grew lighter as he
anticipated hers. ‘Keep watch, Jack! If Captain Roding fails to
keep the man out of the house, run upstairs and warn me quickly. It was the blouse that gave Lucy away. ‘Very well, never mind. ”
“And no one else—has a key?”
“I believe,” she said, “that that man must have one. I wouldn't touch the
stuff for all the pearls in India. It is a very small affair, after all,
and you can pay me back if you will. “You could tell me but you’d have to kill me?” He
asked with a sardonic grin on his face. Breakfast was laid for one, a
dish of fruit and a shining coffee equipage. God send the fellow did turn out to be a spy!
Beckoning Roding on, Gerald crept down the corridor towards the source of
the swishing he had heard.
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