"But
if it is thy will to take me from him," she continued, as soon as her emotion
permitted her,—"if he must be left an orphan amid strangers, implant, I beseech
thee, a mother's feelings in some other bosom, and raise up a friend, who shall be
to him what I would have been. It fell with a clatter to the floor. . ’
Melusine hardly dared believe she had heard him aright. Where else could she go?’
‘And there aren’t too many of them around,’ agreed Hilary on a gloomy note. She
saw the moonlit waters, the black shadow of the proa, the moon-fire that ran
down the far edge of the bellying sail, the silent natives: no sound except the
slapping of the outrigger and the low sibilant murmur of water falling away from
the sides—and the beating of her heart. ’ Handing over the guineas, he added, ‘For you. A
furious attack was made on Jonathan, who, though he defended himself like a
lion, was desperately wounded, and would inevitably have perished if he had not
been protected by the guards, who were obliged to use both swords and fire-arms
upon the mob in his defence. He, next,
discovered that Blueskin was gone; and, pursuing his scrutiny, found that he had
carried off all the banknotes, gold, and letters,—including, what Jonathan
himself was not aware of,—the two packets which he had abstracted from the
person of Thames. As in all things, so his thoughts came to him deliberately. Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed.
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