”
Anna had reached the house where she lodged, but she hesitated on the doorstep. "He's safe enough, I assure
you. "You've perjured yourself. Or,
after all, is it worth while? The Channel is a little broader than the Boulevards—
but one crosses it sometimes. ”
“But how?”
“I poured him out some port wine, and I said—let me see—oh, ‘You are going
to be a grandfather!’”
“Yes. If I had never met anything of you at all but a scrap
of your skin binding a book, Ann Veronica, I know I would have kept that
somewhere near to me. The place was
crowded, and the people about her were almost equally made up of very goodlooking and enthusiastic young people and a great variety of Goopes-like types. You are to make for that and get into the lobby if you can, and so try
and reach the floor of the House, crying ‘Votes for Women!’ as you go. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed
charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase,
surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd
miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope
and Dumas, cheek by jowl. Affixed to the
wall, in a conspicuous situation, was a large placard, which, after minutely
describing Sheppard's appearance and attire, concluded thus:—"Whoever will
discover or apprehend the above JOHN SHEPPARD, so that he be brought to
justice, shall receive ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS REWARD, to be paid by MR.
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