She’ll tell everyone soon, if only
to gain herself some attention!” He cried under his
breath. "
"Not unless your skull's bullet-proof," cried a voice at his elbow; and, as the
words were uttered, a pistol was snapped at his head, which,—fortunately or
unfortunately, as the reader pleases,—only burnt the priming. Stanley, produced a portrait
from its hiding-place in the jewel-drawer under the mirror. That is
good. He ventured to the great
gates, and by inserting his gimblets into the wood at intervals, so as to form
points upon which he could rest his foot, he contrived, to ascend them; and when
at the top, having fastened a portion of his dress to the spikes, he managed, not
without considerable risk, to draw up his female companion. "
"But I never told you how the natives fished. "
"Stick the spike into him, then," returned Sheppard, coolly, "while I unbar the
outlet. ”
A shade of concern darkened Carol Diedermayer’s
face. It
was never intended that I should marry Monsieur Valade, but after the tragedy—’
her eyes darkening in genuine distress ‘—and that he was the only survivor, he
came to me in the convent and married me, and brought me to England. And if you dare to produce any kind of weapon at all,’ he added,
taking a plain brass-barrelled little pistol from his own pocket and levelling it, ‘I
will have no compunction in blowing off your head, you madcap female. She despises me, I suppose. Straitened circumstances would not have mattered; a mother would have
managed somehow.
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