’
‘Undoubtedly,’ Gerald agreed. On
receiving the warning note from the ostler, Jack Sheppard and his companion left
Willesden, and taking—as a blind—the direction of Harrow, returned at nightfall by a by-lane to Neasdon, and put up at a little public-house called the
Spotted Dog. The girl
who had just left the room was as great a mystery to him now as on the
afternoon when he had met her in Piccadilly and taken her to tea. Capes—the ‘Capes crave,’ they would
call it in America. She was practicing with them on
that very day, and displaced a rather mediocre boy
violinist who claimed “to be better at the viola anyway” as
first chair. "
"Won't you take me?"
"No; you must await my return here. . “I could not have stayed in Paris and waited for news. Ladders, paviour's rams, sledge-hammers, and
other destructive implements were procured, and, in all probability, their purpose
would have been effected, but for the opportune arrival of a detachment of the
guards, who dispersed them, not without some loss of life. “That was a moment of madness,” she said. "I haven't quite recovered the fright I got in the Vell-Hole," replied Abraham. ’
‘Then Gérard may come back,’ Melusine cried involuntarily on a sudden
rising hope.
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