We can take our things up with us and
stay at the Continental or the Ritz. “Let your friends act for you. "Now, if as I suspect,—from the documents just placed in your possession,—Sir
Rowland meditates doing you justice after his departure, it is possible his
intentions may be frustrated by the machinations of Wild, whose interest is
obviously to prevent such an occurrence, unless we can surprise them together,
and, by proving to Sir Rowland that we possess the power of compelling a
restitution of your rights, force the other treacherous villain into compliance. A slow heavy thumping started up in Melusine’s chest, and she scarcely took
in the astonished silence in those present in the room. ”
He came and stood on the hearthrug close to her. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. If he was asleep, then she much
regretted that she must wake him up. “I won’t give you a check though—Yes, I will. ”
She laid her hand softly upon his. ’
His features relaxed again and he grinned. Then came the
shock of the knowledge that soon he would be going upon his way, that there
would be no one to depend upon her; and all the old loneliness came smothering
down upon her again. “I’ll run, too,” she volunteered.
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