"I know the hand—ha! my friend! and I have
murdered him! And my sister was thus nobly, thus illustriously wedded. But she made a pretence of struggling a little, for it
would be out of character for her not to do so and she did not want to arouse his
suspicions. White, my landlady, believes his
story. Her aunt, a faded, anæmic-looking lady of
somewhat too obtrusive gentility, was still sitting with her hand pressed to her
heart. Shari smiled and Mike
whispered to her. "
"You'd better send him," jeered the turnkey. "
"Permit me to see it, Sir James!" requested Jack. ‘But can you? You don’t know Melusine for Mary Remenham’s daughter, any
more than I do. ’
‘Entertained, he says!’
‘Intrigued, then,’ amended Gerald equably, although truth to tell he was
enjoying the mystery enormously. Each wing had a
small cupola; and, in the centre of the pile rose a larger dome, surmounted by a
gilded ball and vane. The chief of these was a figure of Liberty, with a cat at
her feet, in allusion to the supposed origin of the fortunes of its former founder,
Sir Richard Whittington. "
"Thank God for that!" ejaculated Mrs. ‘But if there is
one, how in the world did this mystery lady of yours know of it?’
‘That, Lucy, is precisely the point that has been exercising my mind,’ Gerald
said, turning his eyes once more to the group of French exiles in the alcove. ”
A shade of concern darkened Carol Diedermayer’s
face. "
"Six weeks have elapsed since that fatal night," replied Jack.
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