Hurrying in the direction of
the supposed arrest, they encouraged each other with shouts, and threatened the
offending parties with their vengeance. Ed. “You are Mademoiselle Pellissier?” he asked, without rising to his feet. "Woman, your wits are fled!"
And so it seemed; for all the answer she could make was to murmur distractedly,
"I can't find the key. Maggot. I do not wish to seek them out, en effet. I wonder why on
earth the curtains are drawn. As if he read her thought, he spoke it aloud. "
"Nothing else?"
"No. "You've given me more than the amount, Sir Rowland," he said, after he had
twice counted them, "or I've missed my reckoning. All the turnkeys rose to salute the thief-taker, whose habitually-sullen
countenance looked gloomier than usual. So I made
haste and recovered. "Because the prisoner's arrival might disturb you—ha! ha!"
"I'll lay you twenty guineas you don't take him to-night," rejoined Austin.
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