She hoped desperately that
Mrs. "Poor little
creature!" he muttered, pressing it tenderly to his breast, as he grasped the rope
and clambered up to the window: "if thou hast, indeed, lost both thy parents, as
that terrible man said just now, thou art not wholly friendless and deserted, for I
myself will be a father to thee! And in memory of this dreadful night, and the
death from which I have, been the means of preserving thee, thou shalt bear the
name of THAMES DARRELL. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and
inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he
got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank
you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. "I was coming to give you intelligence of a comical trick played by this
rascal, when I find him here—the last place, I own, where I should have
expected to find him. I am quite sure though that they
did not mean to be rude. Had Valade been to see him? Possibly even yesterday when he
was followed by some young lad—and the girl, of course. "No. 2. He was a square-faced man of nearly fifty, with iron-gray hair a mobile, cleanshaven mouth and rather protuberant black eyes that now scrutinized Ann
Veronica. Whatever may happen to-morrow I shall be none the better for anticipating its
miseries to-day. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with
you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’
‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same
radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with
scarlet. He—In fact, he—he locked me in my room. “It was poison—why not?” she answered.
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