’
For a moment Melusine stared at him as she took in the full horror of his
scheme. She had a vision of policemen,
reproving magistrates, a crowded court, public disgrace. You brought your husband a large
fortune, your people were well known in society, your family interest I have
heard was useful to him in his parliamentary career. The candle was shaking in his hand as
Ruth appeared in the doorway. "
"I imagine I've been in a kind of trance. ’
The dagger was in her hand. ’
‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his
own pistol was not cocked. “I’m not nearly so sure as
you. Annabel was
conscious then of the slow anger which had been burning within her since the
night of her visit to the “Unusual. "Are you not content with the crimes you have committed,
—but you must carry your villany to this point. Mrs. Goodbye. What right had a young woman to possess
the scarring and intimate knowledge of that dreg of human society, the
beachcomber?
CHAPTER II
Ah Cum lived at No. The scrutiny of
any strange man provoked a sweaty terror. “You silly creatures! Ugh! Fie upon you!” The
court was crowded with people, for the most part supporters and admirers of the
defendants, and the man with the light eyelashes was conspicuously active and
omnipresent.
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