‘Would you have me face my
maker with that on my conscience? If I’d died, there’d have been no one to tell
you, for your father would not have done. "
"Accident or not," rejoined Sheppard; "you're no longer pall of mine. “The young lady, I presume, told you that her name was Anna,” he remarked. “There’s no end of things I’d like to
talk over with you. "If the Captain is taken to Tyburn, be near the place of execution—at the end of
the Edgeware Road. I suspect she knew
something, for she came home to Remenham House when she was increasing,
and report has it that she was very unhappy. Whenever Ah Cum (whose normal stride was sufficient
to keep him at the side of her chair) pointed out something of interest, she had to
strain the cords in her neck to focus her glance upon the object. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. "
And she flung herself between them. "We have had a sad loss, my dear Winifred," he began,—"for I must use the
privilege of an old friend, and address you by that familiar name,—we have had
a sad loss in the death of your lamented parent, whose memory I shall for ever
revere. A fire enveloped her, a fire which was strangely
healing, filling her heart with warmth, blotting out the menace of the world.
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