If he dies she is safe. ’
‘Sir!’ called Trodger, as the captain began to lead the young lady off. She deserves
what has befallen her. No work that
offered was at all of the quality she had vaguely postulated for herself. A scene now ensued, highly characteristic of the age, and the occasion. In those revolutionary times
one had to be prepared. "Bah!" cried Jack, contemptuously; "nobody's disgraced and ruined unless he's
found out. The hurricane had now reached its climax. The walls
were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of
hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own
audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place
of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid
across joint-stools. ’
‘Are you mad?’
‘Gerald is convinced there is a secret passage into the house,’ explained
Roding. "There's the exact expression I want. "I fear we're too late," he whispered to Thames.
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