“You’re wanted for questioning, miss. “It is not, of course, a pleasant subject of
conversation for you or for me, yet I think I may venture to suggest to you that
your sister’s—er—indiscretions—have reached a point which makes a
separation between you almost a necessity. "If I am the devil," observed Wild, "as some folks assert, and I myself am not
unwilling to believe, you'll find that I differ from the generally-received notions
of the arch-fiend, and faithfully execute the commands of those who confide
their souls to my custody. It will be a little lonely sometimes,” she said,
looking around at them, “and I shall miss you all, but it is the fairest for myself
—and I think for you. You
make me angry, and I lie. He is in the care
of those who will not leave the task assigned to them—the utter perversion of his
principles—half-finished. Every gibbet at Tyburn and Hounslow appeared to have been
plundered of its charnel spoil to enrich the adjoining cabinet, so well was it
stored with skulls and bones, all purporting to be the relics of highwaymen
famous in their day. She taught him all the lore she had; about bird-life and tree-life and the changing
mysteries of the sea. ‘Gerald, what have you been about? Dorothée tells me that you were
flirting outrageously with Madame Valade on Monday night. "
So saying, she retired, and Jack entered the cell. “Surely!” he remarked, with an expression of worried appeal. So Ann Veronica also was arrested. Decidedly this was
imbecile.
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