“You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point
already carried; “you shall!”
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from
unnamable disgraces. “I am not
dependent upon any one. ”
She came closer. He had
not bothered to take off his raincoat and his umbrella sat
dripping on his modern ice cube of a table. \"
He leaned at a steeper pitch. ’
‘What if she goes back to Charvill?’ demanded Roding. "
"Well, you know I always act under your orders, Captain," returned Blueskin;
"and if you give the word to retreat, I shall obey, of course: but I know what
Edgeworth Bess will say when we go home empty-handed. What is it?"
"Guess," rejoined Blueskin, attempting to throw a gallant expression into his
forbidding countenance. A minute pressure inwards showed him that it was not locked. . “More than that, he arrived to-day at the
boarding-house where I am staying, greeted me with a theatrical start, and
claimed me—as his wife. Presently you will see that I am right, and then you
shall take your vacation over here, and we will be good comrades again.
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