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"I am at a loss to understand you Sir,", said Trenchard. From now on,
you’re going to listen to me for a change. Part 2
They had their explanations the next evening, but they were explanations in
quite other terms than Ann Veronica had anticipated, quite other and much more
startling and illuminating terms. Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. ‘If it is that your men there
are going to arrest us, then why do they not do so?’
‘Left to myself, I’d let them,’ he replied grimly. "Poor little
creature!" he muttered, pressing it tenderly to his breast, as he grasped the rope
and clambered up to the window: "if thou hast, indeed, lost both thy parents, as
that terrible man said just now, thou art not wholly friendless and deserted, for I
myself will be a father to thee! And in memory of this dreadful night, and the
death from which I have, been the means of preserving thee, thou shalt bear the
name of THAMES DARRELL. ’
‘You may not get the chance.
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