I know very well Gerald has been fishing for
information about that girl, and I am determined to find out what he knows. ”
Chapter XXVI
ANNABEL IS WARNED
“You!”
David Courtlaw crossed the floor of the dingy little sitting-room with
outstretched hands. Her state of mind would have seemed altogether discreditable to her
grandmother. She
had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as
she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude
and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a
correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick. '—'They can't,' says I. "He was hanged that left his drink behind, you know, master," rejoined
Sheppard. They had not so far been of
much personal interest to Gerald, but tonight was different. ‘Bring her to me and we shall see. “The fact of it is, and this absurd project of yours only brings it to a head, you
have begun to get hold of some very queer ideas about what a young lady in
your position may or may not venture to do. "
Sheppard was no match for his opponent, for, though he possessed more science,
he was deficient in weight and strength; and, after a short round, in which he had
decidedly the worst of it, a well-directed hit on the nob stretched him at full
length on the floor.
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