She had been carrying
them, he assumed, but then again the school had some
particularly talented kids among the usual ruffians. In the struggle the pistol went off,
but without damage to either party. She
glanced at the soft-ticking clock with the exposed brass pendulum upon the
white marble mantel, and made a rapid calculation. "I warn you, if you do not send for a doctor immediately, you will have cause to
regret it," Ruth declared vigorously. "I'm a detective; my ears and eyes have been trained to absorb
all I see and all I hear. The latter looked very pale, either from
the effect of his wound, which was not yet entirely healed, or from suppressed
emotion,—partly, perhaps, from both causes,—and wore his left arm in a sling. It had rained during the night, and the patch-work
pavement was greasy with mud. He might have supposed the fellow would be eager to be rid of the tale, for
that he might have longer to enjoy the amenities of the Triumphal Chariot where
the meeting had been appointed. The tropical dawn is swift. Water poured into her eyes,
nose, and mouth in a torrent from which she had to turn
and wheeze. "
Sir Rowland looked at her for a moment, as if he meditated some terrible reply. “I must try the Directory.
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