"That young man had better watch his cough," said Spinster
Prudence. By
your father, Sir Montacute Trenchard's will, you are aware,—and, therefore, I
need not repeat it, except for the special purpose I have in view,—you are aware,
I say, that, by this will, in case your sister Aliva, died without issue, or, on the
death of such issue, the property reverts to Constance and her issue. Goopes, Ann Veronica
gathered, was a mathematical tutor and visited schools, and his wife wrote a
weekly column in New Ideas upon vegetarian cookery, vivisection,
degeneration, the lacteal secretion, appendicitis, and the Higher Thought
generally, and assisted in the management of a fruit shop in the Tottenham Court
Road. His mind was filled
briefly with psychic images of a charnel house that
danced like a spider in his head. As soon as he was certain he should be disturbed no more, Jack set to work, and
with the aid of the file in less than an hour had freed himself from his fetters. "
"This is folly," cried Jack, controlling himself by a powerful effort. “How can you know?”
“I think—perhaps I am rather a cold-blooded person. Parbleu, but
she was a fool. That won’t involve references, as a bank
account would—and all that sort of thing. “I do
not even know who you are. That would
be fun, eh?"
"I wonder if you know how kind you are? You are like somebody out of a book. He was almost frightening in silhouette, his
hair uncontrollable under the best of circumstances, but
that changed when you saw his face. “This is mere nonsense, mere tongue-tied fear!”
she said. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. “You need have no further
trouble.
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