A chill rain thrummed against the sides of John’s car,
having slowed from deluge to steady patter, the snow was
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dissolved where it lay. Then with an indescribable relief her
feet were on the pavement, and she was being urged along by two policemen,
who were gripping her wrists in an irresistible expert manner. The asylum was approached by a broad gravel walk,
leading through a garden edged on either side by a stone balustrade, and shaded
by tufted trees. Curiously enough nothing will persuade him
that she is not ‘Alcide. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect. "Come, then," said Wild, marching towards the door, "we've no time to lose. Blue haze had settled beyond the
black silhouettes of trees, graduating to the deep violet
that began the night sky. He was a small, dark, reserved man, with a large inflexiblelooking convex forehead, and his wife was very pink and high-spirited, with one
of those chins that pass insensibly into a full, strong neck. To his consternation,
she was holding an unwieldy, ugly-looking pistol, all wood and tarnished steel,
with both hands about the butt. “Something. ‘Certainly you must
have seen her.
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