I’ll have to make a visit out of town. His attitude
was as different from Gianfrancesco’s as night was from
day. The letter began:
“MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—”
She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate
gesture flung them into the fire. Maggot was equipped in a
light blue riding-habit, trimmed with silver, a hunting-cap and a flaxen peruke,
and, instead of a whip, carried a stout cudgel. I feel almost inclined to regret the fact. "I must tell you," she was saying. All at once her heart began to
patter queerly. It was explosive
and gratifying. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. We’re hard stuff!”
Then she went on: “To think that is my father! Oh, my dear! He stood over me
like a cliff; the thought of him nearly turned me aside from everything we have
done. ”
He stared in amazement at this new aspect of the situation. The detective rapidly sketched the appearance of
the room in his notebook, and picked up the pistol from under the table. There was no one to be seen in
the great hall. Do not waste time in vain
regrets, but let us remove the body, that we may fulfil her last injunctions.
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