” She put
her wrists upon his shoulders, feeling him surge with the
pride of his own masculinity as she touched him. “What is an Oracle, Sebastian?”
“I’ve told you a dozen times. But—”
The tired woman raised her eyebrows in mild protest. But though he made Blueskin and Kettleby his
chief marks, he missed both. Cowering
in a corner upon a heap of straw sat his unfortunate mother, the complete wreck
of what she had been. “What made you marry him? What made you
leave Paris without a word to any one? What made you and your sister exchange
identities?”
“There is one answer to all those questions, Nigel,” she said, with a nervous little
shudder. On the same peg and evidently belonging to it was a black
velvet Zouave jacket. And as he gave back the portfolio to Sir Rowland he contrived, unobserved, to
slip the precious document into his sleeve, and from thence into his pocket.
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