Their talk drifted to the beauty of music, and they took that
up again at tea-time. But all
of that was forgotten. "And what do you suppose we mean
to do with you, eh?"
"You mean to kill me," replied Thames, "by my cruel uncle's command. ‘This idiotic female—’
‘This imbecile has made me—’
‘—made me lose my temper, and I—’
‘—cut him with my dagger, and he is—’
‘—damn near slit her throat!’
‘—bleeding like a pig!’
‘Whoa, whoa!’ stormed the captain, starting forward. She was quite a beauty,
all in white, and I can still see how much you resemble
her. ‘Or perhaps to marry the soi-disant
cousin that Emile portrays?’
That silenced Martha, for the Mother Abbess had sent her off with Melusine to
England not only for the sake of the girl herself, but to save at least one of her
nuns from the growing wrath of the populace of France. Conscientious objectors to that process are not permitted,
she found, in Canongate. While he was thus occupied,
Thames, prompted by an unaccountable feeling of curiosity, took up the penknife
which the other had just used, and examined the haft. She reached the station, and mingling with a crowd of excursionists who had
come from the river on the other side, took her place in the train unnoticed. “Nothing can cheer me,” he
said, “except champagne.
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