They lived in a castle, the same place she had been
turned in. ”
“If you tempt me too much,” she said, after a silence, “I shall do it. The thief-taker's throat
was bound up with thick folds of linen, and his face had a ghastly and
cadaverous look, which communicated an undefinable and horrible expression to
his glances. A
sacrifice. She still could not
muster the strength to leave. ” She hesitated. It was he
who saw them first coming down the room—Annabel in a wonderful white satin
gown in front, and Sir John stiff, unbending, disapproving, bringing up the rear. He pictured himself
visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it
was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would
surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the
lips. Hanging on the wall was a temple censer, bronze,
moulded in the shape of a lotus blossom with stem and leaves—deadly as a club. “My
God!” he said again. Anything else that was said she now regarded only as an
aspect of or diversion from that. It was time to leave America. She cleaned
everything, wiped every surface, mopped and scrubbed
every last drop of blood. Earles strode into the waiting-room.
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