‘Seems to me, missie, as you’re as dangerous a female
as I’m like to see. He stood up, apparently intending to put an arm about her, but she
stepped back from him quickly. I learned the trick of the place from one Paul Groves, who used to live
here, and who contrived the machine. "Where?"
"That can wait," she answered. ’
The lady uttered a scornful sound. His mind was busy with a résumé of yesterday's unusual events. “She finds lying up so much very
irksome. Wood,—Winifred fainted in
the arms of a female attendant,—and Wood standing beside them almost in a
state of distraction. ‘What is it that you told him?’
‘Nothing, miss, I swear. I will give you a broad free
life. She was a small blonde, not handsome, but with a flair for fashion
demonstrated by her elegant chemise gown in the very latest Canterbury muslin,
with its low décolletage barely concealed under a fine lawn handkerchief set
about her shoulders, and decorated with a mauve satin sash at the waist. ”
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE:
Typesetting and editing of the original book from which this e-text has been
transcribed was inconsistent. “What has she told you?”
“Everything. ”
Sydney Courtlaw followed his timid knock.
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