Many of the soldiers
dismounted, and called for drink. “You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point
already carried; “you shall!”
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from
unnamable disgraces. Her defence ceased rapidly to be in any
sense ladylike, and became vigorous and effective; a strand of black hair that had
escaped its hairpins came athwart Ramage’s eyes, and then the knuckles of a
small but very hardly clinched fist had thrust itself with extreme effectiveness
and painfulness under his jawbone and ear. "Within the last few minutes,
all my guilty life has passed before me. Next
instant he had her immobilised, her hands behind her back, her chest crushed to
his, the white veil slipping once again. It was she! The Dawn Pearl!
He vaulted the veranda rail, careless now whether or not he was heard, and ran
down to the beach. In some things, in many things, you must trust to your
elders, to those who know more of life than you do. They clapped wildly afterward.
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