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“Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized
the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. Beyond the Circus Ann Veronica went into a British Tea-Table Company shop
to get some tea. His heart was beating, but faintly and
slowly, with ominous intermissions. Both husband
and wife affected an unnatural ease of manner for the benefit of the efficient
parlor-maid, who was putting the finishing touches to the sideboard
arrangements. "That's
an incorrigible rascal," he added, as Sheppard closed the door; "it's only to-day
that I discovered—"
"What?" asked Jackson, pricking up his ears. Joan told me it was hung
somewhere in the house, only I couldn’t remember where after all this time. Taking the opposite course from that which he had hitherto pursued
when it has been necessary to attend him in his visits to the lower part of his
premises, he struck into a narrow passage on the right, which he tracked till he
came to a small door, like the approach to a vault. ”
She rang the bell, and he waited by her side until she was admitted to the tall,
gloomy lodging-house.
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