”
Drummond shook his head in melancholy fashion. Anna jumped into a waiting hansom. ‘That is imbecile. Mr. ‘By traitors I
am surrounded!’
‘Stop talking utter twaddle,’ ordered Roding, marching up to the desk. “I am so sorry. ”
Chapter XXVI
ANNABEL IS WARNED
“You!”
David Courtlaw crossed the floor of the dingy little sitting-room with
outstretched hands. You did not complain then that I personated you—no, nor when
Sir John came to me in Paris, and for your sake I lied. ”
“Why on earth—? A man ought to be labelled. ’
‘Don’t be too sure,’ said Miss Froxfield darkly, with a mischievous glance at
her betrothed. And the opportunity to share in your exciting adventures was just too tempting
to be put aside. Each time a daughter had been born to him he had concealed
his chagrin with great tenderness and effusion from his wife, and had sworn
unwontedly and with passionate sincerity in the bathroom. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a
complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of
them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and
used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason;
together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the
same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of
boiling tar and oil. How Jack Sheppard was again captured
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XV. "Do you still refuse to make
one!"
"I have made one," replied Lady Trafford.
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