‘If you did not want me to talk of it,’ she told him with characteristic
insouciance, ‘you should not have mentioned the matter to me. "My plan is a very simple one," rejoined the thief-taker smiling bitterly. When he was given the telegram he flew to the Praya, engaged the fast motorboat he had previously bespoken against the need, and started for the Macao
Passage, with the vague hope of speaking The Tigress. Come!
come!"
"Hear me, mother," cried Jack, "and I will explain to you why the villain makes
this strange and revolting proposal. He disappeared
into its thick doors like a magician’s rabbit. It was no easy matter to determine her age, for, though she still retained
a certain youthfulness of appearance, she had many marks in her countenance,
usually indicating the decline of life, but which in her case were, no doubt, the
result of constant and severe indisposition. “Perhaps,” he queried, “you wish to avoid being seen about with any one—er—
connected with the profession, under present circumstances. “A joke! Sir John, if
you had presented yourself here an hour ago we should have greeted you in
pained silence. Larry Beck did his best to the flares
of her temper from rising.
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