She had reason enough to be grateful to Prudence Sindlesham
and it was not fair that this horrible feeling of loneliness should be made known
to her. ’
***
Mrs Chalkney, a long-time friend of the late Mrs Alderley, had been delighted to
oblige that lady’s son. “I don’t think you realize,” Ann Veronica began again, “that I am rather a
defective human being. His progress, however, was
checked by loud acclamations, announcing the arrival of the Master of the Mint
and his train. Besides this, the door was crossed
and recrossed by iron bars, clenched by broad-headed nails. After encountering other dangers, and being twice, compelled to fling himself
flat upon his face to avoid slipping from the wet and slimy pathway, he was at
length about to emerge from the lock, when, to his inexpressible horror, he found
he had lost the child!
All the blood in his veins rushed to his heart, and he shook in every limb as he
made this discovery. Spurlock had been taken aboard that
yacht with the Kanaka crew, because The Tigress was the only ship marked for
departure that night. He glanced downwards at the impetuous torrent,
which he could perceive shooting past him with lightning swiftness in the
gloom. She did not resist him, she could not.
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