“I cannot but conclude,” he said, “that your errand involved the recital to my
wife of some trouble in which you find yourself. ’
The shift threw Melusine’s attention off the errant major for the moment. And now YOU’RE on the war-path. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. Near as idiot as this capitaine of yours. Waving a white flag, naturally. The thousand voices which a few moments before had
been so clamorous were now hushed. Hitherto in the world’s history there had been precursors of this Progress at
great intervals, voices that had spoken and ceased, but now it was all coming on
together in a rush. ‘There are no Remenhams left. She came originally of
country stock, and had been virtually in sole charge of Melusine almost from the
hour of her birth—a thankless task, as Melusine had heard her bemoan countless
times, with the rider that she had carried it out with a conspicuous lack of
success. A rock gave way to deep
water. ”
“Oh. Wood," observed Jackson, in a slightly-sarcastic
tone.
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