. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a
chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's
'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. It was shameful, but again, her mother
had prepared her for it. "
And, with this generous resolve, he shouted at the top of his voice, "Arrest!
arrest! help! help!" seconding the words with a shrill and peculiar cry, well
known at the time to the inhabitants of the quarter in which it was uttered. "Kidnapped, and sent to France
by one uncle, it was my lot to fall into the hands of another,—my father's own
brother, the Marshal Gaucher de Chatillon; to whom, and to the Cardinal Dubois,
I owed all my good fortune. You, sir,” he added, turning to Brendon, “had better take my card round to the
police station in Werner Street and ask that Detective Dorling be sent round here
at once on urgent business.
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