”
“And no one else—has a key?”
“I believe,” she said, “that that man must have one. Instantly I knew that I was going to run away that night before he returned from
the neighbouring island. ’
‘What?’ uttered Gerald, startled. ‘I thought, you see,
that we might as well enter by the same way our intruder had done. ’
‘Do not say so. The roof was partially
untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported
by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the
windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases,
the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left
free to the airs of heaven. I know of
scandalous deeds which he has done. Ann Veronica was not ready enough to deal with that counter-stroke. Nothing more forlorn could be conceived. "What's that?"
"The old human cry of something for nothing; but with you it is in reverse. Maggot lent her powerful aid, and, between the two, Jack
was speedily relieved from all fears of being carried off against his will. He tasted like cinders and ash, but not of
smoke. Sheppard," cried the thief-taker, as he slipped a pair of
handcuffs over Jack's wrists, "for the help you have given us in capturing your
son.
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