She shut her lips hard, her jaw hardened, and she set herself to struggle with
him. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden
and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that
his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain
some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to
be turned to account hereafter. "Off with it to the health of King James the Third, and confusion to his
enemies!"
"Hold!" interposed Wood; "that is treason. ‘What, miss?’ asked Jack Kimble from behind her. "But why didn't you make yourself known at once?"
"I'd forgotten the office you hold in the Mint, Baptist," replied Rowland. “You had only to
ask——”
“Do you think,” Anna interrupted, with a note of passion trembling also in her
tone, “that I would have taken alms from Sir John, the man to whom I had lied
for your sake. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had
been robbed without knowing it. A shaft of searing heat plunged
downward. Several
people in the crowd seemed to be fighting. I only know that it is right to do what I do.
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