Part 4
At eight that evening Miss Stanley tapped at Ann Veronica’s bedroom door. "
"Do you happen to know Jonathan Wild, master?" inquired Jack, altering his
tone, and assuming a more respectful demeanour. Darting to a window
looking in that direction, Thames threw it up, and discharged both his pistols, but
without effect. "If you are human," rejoined Trenchard, with stern emphasis, "I insist upon
knowing whence you derived your information?"
"I might refuse to answer the question, Sir Rowland. I felt
suddenly I understood you—as an intelligent person. The inner apartment was rather gracefully furnished with a thick, fine Turkish
carpet, a good brass fender, a fine old bureau, and on the walls were engravings
of two young girls’ heads by Greuze, and of some modern picture of boys
bathing in a sunlit pool. ”
Again that curious smile which puzzled him so much parted her lips for a
moment. ”
He nodded twice, with his eyes on the fire, as though that was a formal
statement. Everything in his favour—the luck of the gods! The only white men
were miles down the coast. She had never seen so much food in her life as she
saw at her own wedding feast.
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