Try and let him never regret it. Melusine grasped the hilt of the sword she had been carefully
holding, and came out into the light. The
hymnal lyrics had never stirred her; she had memorized and sung them parrotwise. I didn’t think—I
don’t know what I thought. It was not necessary to appease the wrath of human society; it was
necessary only to appease that of God for the broken Commandment. "
"They're lifting her out of the carriage," interposed Charcam; "will it please your
honour to send for some advice and the chaplain?"
"Fly for both," returned Sir Rowland, in a tone of bitter anguish. CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
I THE CARPET-KNIGHT AND THE
7
LADY
II THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL
15
III ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
20
IV THE TEMPERAMENT OF AN
26
ARTIST
V “ALCIDE”
31
VI A QUESTION OF
36
IDENTIFICATION
VII MISS PELLISSIER’S SUSPICIONS
41
VIII “WHITE’S”
45
IX BRENDON’S LUCK
54
X THE TRAGEDY OF AN
61
APPETITE
XI THE PUZZLEMENT OF NIGEL
66
ENNISON
XII THE POSTER OF “ALCIDE”
70
XIII “HE WILL NOT FORGET!”
76
XIV “THIS IS MY WIFE”
81
XV A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
89
XVI THE DISCOMFITURE OF SIR
96
JOHN
XVII THE CHANGE IN “ALCIDE”
103
XVIII ANNABEL AND “ALCIDE”
109
XIX “THIS IS NOT THE END”
115
XX ANNA’S SURRENDER
121
XXI HER SISTER’S SECRET
126
XXII AN OLD FOOL
134
XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT
AT LAST
XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE
XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE
TRUTH
XXVI ANNABEL IS WARNED
XXVII JOHN FERRINGHAM,
GENTLEMAN
XXVIII THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE”
XXIX MONTAGUE HILL PLAYS THE
GAME
XXX SIR JOHN’S NECKTIE
XXXI ANNA’S TEA PARTY
XXXII SIX MONTHS AFTER
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162
169
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183
188
ANNA THE ADVENTURESS
Chapter I
THE CARPET-KNIGHT AND THE LADY
The girl paused and steadied herself for a moment against a field gate. Montague Hill. The twenty pounds burned with avidity. "Well," she said, in reply, "I may have done Jack an injustice. He bowed over her hand,
venturing to drop a kiss on it’s leathery surface. She tipped his mouth towards her
own and kissed him. There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. "I'm prudence personified.
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