In any event, I explained that no one lived here and that we’d
been called in because of suspected intruders. But give me
till to-morrow—only till to-morrow—I may be able to part with him then. The slow stars circled on to the moment of
their meeting. Part 2
They had their explanations the next evening, but they were explanations in
quite other terms than Ann Veronica had anticipated, quite other and much more
startling and illuminating terms. ”
“I shall always be grateful to you,” he declared. Unlocking several doors, he came to a dark vault, that
would have rivalled the gloomiest cell in Newgate, into which he thrust Thames,
and fastened the door. The world is
known to you. I do,
however. The moment they cease to be serviceable, or become dangerous he
lodges an information, and the matter's settled. ”
Ann Veronica looked at her thoughtfully for a moment, and decided to persist
on principle. The following morning found him in the doctor's waiting room, a black cigar
turning unlighted in his teeth. ’
‘Ah, that was an affair altogether different,’ she explained and fluttered her
long lashes at him. ” He panted. “Here goes for the new life!”
“Here goes for the new life,” he echoed and stood up. The Morning Post was hungry for governesses and nursery governesses,
but held out no other hopes; the Daily Telegraph that morning seemed eager only
for skirt hands.
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