Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply
and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she
could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. . "
"You believe it, father?"
"From the bottom of my heart. It won't do to knock at the door, and Jonathan
Wild's house is not quite so easy of entrance as Mr. “There was a man called Montague Hill,” she said hoarsely, “but he is dead. “Look at our affair,” he went on, looking up at her. ‘That
piece of information seemed to interest him very much. She further suspected that he
might find a servant to dally with in the meantime, if he
had not already. “Please forgive me—for one moment,” she sobbed. Opposite to her was a sallow-visaged
young man, whose small tie seemed like a smudge of obtusively shiny black
across the front of a high close-drawn collar. There’s no sense in morality, I suppose, unless you are fundamentally immoral. ‘The place was full of
barbers and military men. She said that? To be closer to you?”
“I think she is plotting something, though I cannot
guess what. Already she had sent him twenty pounds, and never written to explain to him
why it was she had not sent it back sharply directly he returned it.
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