Even now she could trace the outline of his
shape behind the left-hand curtain. ”
“Cabmen are so trying,” Mrs. Drummond had made an abominable mistake. She could smell his cologne
underneath his collar, or perhaps his aftershave. Not many years ago, two men, employed on this duty, quarrelled
during the night, and in the morning their bodies were found stretched upon the
pavement of the yard beneath. His thoughts, indeed, were too painful for utterance, and so acute
were his feelings, that, for some time, they quite overcame him. Talked about his years, his position and his constituents, and always sneaked
off back to his hotel just when the fun was going to begin. ”
“And you can’t?”
“I don’t think I ought to control myself. She had trembled on the verge of
such a resolution before, but this time quite definitely she made it. "Any price was better than your head. But she did not speak. ’
‘Damn you, answer me!’
Her eyes flashed. Her voice was soft and singularly musical; but from time to time she
uttered old-fashioned words which forced him to grope mentally. "
"Then, most probably, it was the widow Sheppard," answered Blueskin, sulkily. Take my word for it, your troubles are over.
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