He encouraged her to join him in his debauchery. She winced when
first she heard the preparation-room door open and Capes came down the
laboratory; but when at last he reached her she was self-possessed. And God had let him do it! He was—and
now he perfectly understood that he was—treading the queerest labyrinth a man
had ever entered. ’
‘I am afraid that there is,’ Gerald told her evenly. "Concerning whom?"
"Mrs. Brendon and I are great chums,” he went on nervously. "Farewell!" cried Jack, embracing them. Kneebone assured her that he did say so; and, as a further proof of his
sincerity, squeezed her hand very warmly under the table. "Bravo!" cried the thief-taker approvingly. An action which gave Gerald
furiously to think. Seen down the length of the laboratory, Manning looked a very handsome and
shapely gentleman indeed, and, at the sight of his eager advance to his fiancee,
Miss Klegg replaced one long-cherished romance about Ann Veronica by one
more normal and simple. "Hear me, Jack!" shrieked his mother. "Do you hear me?" cried the lady, with increasing vehemence. He
had gained admission somehow, and he too was waiting for Anna.
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