Chapter XXI
HER SISTER’S SECRET
“I think,” Lady Ferringhall said, “that you are talking very foolishly. "I'm not particular about
rooms. "What did you say to him?" inquired Jonathan, suspiciously. “It’s your birthday today,
May Day. She ducked behind a pile of unused drywall. ”
“Go ahead. A slight cough uttered by Jonathan at the moment awakened
the echoes of the place, and was returned in hollow reverberations. Was
there anything at all in those locked rooms of her aunt’s mind? Were they fully
furnished and only a little dusty and cobwebby and in need of an airing, or were
they stark vacancy except, perhaps, for a cockroach or so or the gnawing of a
rat? What was the mental equivalent of a rat’s gnawing? The image was going
astray. Sheppard did not make her appearance quite so soon as he expected, the
carpenter became a little fidgetty, and, having succeeded in tranquillizing the
child, he thought proper to walk so far down the entry as would enable him to
reconnoitre the upper windows of the house. They were silent and no
longer observant, being more or less exhausted by the tedious action of the
chairs. ‘Don’t want it
to break out bleeding again. "
"Ha!" ejaculated the other. He was in front of one of
the more imposing of the cafés chantants—opposite, illuminated with a whole
row of lights, was the wonderful poster which had helped to make ‘Alcide’
famous.
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