It's two hundred pounds. “Annabel,
I begin to see why you are here. Part 5
She had sent her father a telegram from the East Strand post-office worded
thus:
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All
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is
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well
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with
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and
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quite
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safe
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me
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and afterward she had dined a la carte upon a cutlet, and had then set herself
to write an answer to Mr. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. Lucy blushed from toes to forehead, feeling her pace
accelerate. Sheppard. As this seemed insufficient, after a lapse of five
minutes, he added another hundred weight. Fancy, as they say hereabouts!"
What had aroused this open-air monologue was a small tin sign in a window. Forgetting the dark thoughts of his last brush with the girl, he dropped the
dagger back in his pocket, quickened his pace, and went back into the house to
look for his hostess. We’re going in. ’
The lodgekeeper’s jaw fell open. Her efforts were vain. ’
‘Yes, but I have not gone,’ Melusine said impatiently. He bent to her hand, and she slipped off the ring and gave it to him to examine.
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