‘How could you possibly know it?’
‘I know it,’ Lucilla told him frostily, ‘because Dorothée told me that Madame
Valade went off with Gerald positively purring in her ear—which is a thing he
never does—and came back with him looking like the cat after cream. Melusine shrieked an imprecation, and ran the length of the aisle, searching
for the weapon she had thrown. “Come,” he continued, “the world after all is a very small place. The account of the discovery of Sir Rowland's murder filled Winifred with
alarm; but when she learnt what had befallen Thames—how he had been
stricken down by the thief-taker's bludgeon, and left for dead, she uttered a
piercing scream, fainted, and would have fallen, if Jack had not caught her in his
arms. "Where are the packets committed to your
charge by Sir Rowland Trenchard?"
"The packets!" exclaimed Kneebone, in alarm. Do
you know the story of Orpheus? He was a musician who
followed his damned wife into Hell to bring her back?
He was one of us, I believe. Every movable mirror had been placed here, to discourage vanity, and since no
whitewash covered the brocaded purple wallpaper, its pervasive hue gave an
added sense of heaviness to the crowded chamber. Will
you tell her that?"
"I will," replied Thames, earnestly. Men and women
are not established things; they’re experiments, all of them. Well, if she survives the accident—as the blood, who styles himself Sir
Cecil, fancies she may do—this ring will make my fortune by leading to the
discovery of the chief parties concerned in this strange affair.
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