Chapter VI
A QUESTION OF IDENTIFICATION
The little man with the closely-cropped beard and hair looked at her keenly
through his gold eye-glasses. ” Mike said, with
unsubtle jealousy. ‘Well said, my dear. But she was disturbed,
mysteriously disturbed. The light touch of Ah Cum's hand upon her arm broke the thread of retrospective
thought; and her gray eyes began to register again the things she saw. The condition of the rooms was indescribably filthy and
disgusting; nor were the habits of the occupants much more cleanly. The wind blew in fitful gusts, and scattered the yellow leaves
from the elms and horse-chestnuts. "
The desperate eagerness to go with him—and she dared not voice it! She
watched him until McClintock joined him and the two made off toward the
south. And when they came to the gallows, Jack leaped out of the
cart, and the hangman tied up Jonathan instead—ha! ha! How the mob shouted
and huzzaed—and I shouted too—ha! ha! ha!"
"Mother!" cried Jack, unable to endure this agonizing scene longer. She was a very elegant young woman,
slightly taller perhaps than her sister, and with an air of reserved strength
underneath her quiet face and manner which Annabel may have lacked. I don't threaten idly, as you know.
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