He had barely settled at his desk in his library, when he
was disturbed by two morning callers. ‘And if you like, I will tell you why. You don’t wear a dinner coat with
a flower in your button-hole, or last night’s shirt, or very glossy boots, nor do
you haunt the drawing-room in the evening, or play at being musical. So am I. Remember! not a word!"
So saying, he huddled the mantle over Wood's shoulders, dashed the lantern to
the ground, and extinguished the light. The young man desperately ill and the girl taking care of him! Of course, there
could be only one ending to such a bout with liquor, and that ending had come
perhaps suddenly but not surprisingly. She had a few acquaintances, English
gentlemen, but she lived with her sister—was a lady. ”
She shook her head. “Is there any
urgency?”
The doctor bent over his patient, who seemed to have fallen asleep. ”
She marked an hotel that seemed neither opulent nor odd in a little side street
opening on the Embankment, made up her mind with an effort, and, returning by
Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo, took a cab to this chosen refuge with her two
pieces of luggage. "An excellent reason, i' faith!" exclaimed Blueskin, with a roar of surprise and
indignation, which was echoed by the whole assemblage. ’
The possibility was indeed remote, for there had been no trouble with France
since the Peace of Versailles had been signed six years ago.
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