’”
“Yes?”
“I think—yes, I went on in a pleasing blend of the casual and sotto voce, ‘The
fact of it is, sir, I happen to be your son-in-law, Capes. Miss Mary to the life. "You depart for
Lancashire to-morrow. “And then?” said Ann Veronica. She kept him talking all the way to the doorstep of the
Beck's home, a small 1970s brown split-level in the old
part of town. Did I not say so, Hilary?’
Melusine’s glance shot across to the newcomer, and found a petite blonde
standing there, very fashionably attired in a velvet mantel over an apple-green
robe, the furred hood framing a face alive with mischief. They were silent and no
longer observant, being more or less exhausted by the tedious action of the
chairs. Perhaps because I don’t know. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. I told
her it was the end. “I hope you have not come for that. ’ She sniffed and swallowed. How Jack Sheppard was again captured
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