” “Then may I come to the study to-night—after dinner?” “I’m—BUSY!” “It’s important. One of the reasons why I left Paris and came to London was because there was a man there who wanted me to marry him. I'm not quite such a greenhorn as Shotbolt, Jack, whatever you may think. White, my landlady, believes his story. Her husband had caught her leaning over a precipice into the ruins of the oubliette, and had punished her by flogging her back with a switch. It suited him to dampen the spirits of any who sought to impose upon him, as these relics of the loathed family of Valade seemed like to do. The beautiful gowns and the flashing bare shoulders and arms of the women had disturbed and distressed her. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?" For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. It was no marriage at all. Half an hour afterwards the body of Jack was carefully examined.
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