‘You’ll come with us and get yourself safe back home to
your convent, understand?’
‘But wait,’ begged Melusine, hanging back. Whenever Ah Cum (whose normal stride was sufficient
to keep him at the side of her chair) pointed out something of interest, she had to
strain the cords in her neck to focus her glance upon the object. "My sister the wife of one condemned felon! the
parent of another! It cannot be. Upstairs, in the little dressing-room, the panel was opened by means of
tugging a small candlesconce in the wall. I
found him once in my rooms, and I believe that he had a key to my front door. At this juncture, and just as a cuckoo-clock in
the corner struck sis, Jack Sheppard walked into the room, with the packing-case
under his arm. “The smallest will do for me
quite well. ’
‘Nonsense, it’ll give Pottiswick something genuine to complain about,’ said
Gerald cheerfully, moving to the edge of the trees. “You might at least,” she murmured, “have invented a more romantic reason. You have taken my dagger. But I mean to have them. Then, naturally, I went on
talking.
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