I
told him that I would help stage your kidnapping. What a pig she was. "
"Company!" echoed Rachel; "at this time of night?"
"Company, child," repeated Kneebone. “Don’t be too sure of that,” she answered enigmatically. ”
He went to the window and fidgeted with the blind, looking out to where the
tree-tops of Regent’s Park showed distantly over the houses. Sheppard. It was wonderful. \"I'm sorry, Larry. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. She’s
as stubborn as the proverbial mule, and—’ with a sigh that felt wrenched out of
him ‘—utterly captivating. ”
And thus it was that as Ann Veronica neared the gates of home, she said to
herself: “I’ll have it out with him somehow. ”
“The inference is, then,” the detective said smoothly, “that this man obtained
admission to your rooms by means of a false key, that he burnt some papers here
and shot himself within a few moments of your return. She cursed the treachery of
memory, its frailty and spottiness.
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