“I believe,” he said stiffly, “that these are the apartments of Miss Pellissier. Glancing idly up at her own window as they had swung round the corner she had
seen a strange thing. “To Paris! But why? What do you hope to discover there?”
“I do not know,” he answered, “but I am going to see David Courtlaw. Sister’s got married to that bounder Ferringhall. She
was perhaps three-and-twenty, and very pink and healthy-looking, showing a
great deal of white and rounded neck above her business-like but altogether
feminine blouse, and a good deal of plump, gesticulating forearm out of her
short sleeve. The big pay strikes them; but when
they find there's no place to spend it, good-bye!"
Tom the cook came in with the chops and the potatoes—the doctor's dinner—
and McClintock fell to with a gusto which suggested that there was still some
liver under his ribs. Mauled about!”
She fell to rubbing her insulted lips savagely with the back of her hand. "
"I begin to see that I shall have to learn English all over again. ’
Captain Roding grinned. "I know exactly what I have done," replied Spurlock. Or had she, like himself, been held up until the fellow returned to town? He
waited, his ready humour anticipating her likely reaction.
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