“I am sorry for the
way I acted, Lucy. Here is one verse. Concealed among the trees that edged the estate grounds, the watchers
paused. There came to O'Higgins the discouraging knowledge that upon the heels of a
wonderful chase—blindman's buff in the dark—would come a stretch of dull
inaction. The coconut plantation covered the west side. She flailed against the
doctor’s grip but after what seemed an eternity of kicking
and flailing, amazingly, he had not seemed weakened in
the slightest by her resistance. They then took off their boots, and crept stealthily up stairs, treading
upon the point of their toes so cautiously, that not a board creaked beneath their
weight. I received a telegram, as you know,
during dinner. After encountering other dangers, and being twice, compelled to fling himself
flat upon his face to avoid slipping from the wet and slimy pathway, he was at
length about to emerge from the lock, when, to his inexpressible horror, he found
he had lost the child!
All the blood in his veins rushed to his heart, and he shook in every limb as he
made this discovery. Ann Veronica loved beautiful things, and the beauty of undraped loveliness
not least among them; but these were pictures that did but insist coarsely upon
the roundness of women’s bodies. “She is likely
somewhere on the road or perhaps in town, finding
victims. ‘What did
you do with the portrait then? Not that I suppose it is much use any longer. Ann Veronica was lying on her bed in a darkling room staring at the ceiling.
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