“Good,” he said, as he watched the colour come back to her cheeks. Then the lady smiled and her radiance, even in the
darkness, warmed Gerald unexpectedly. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a
Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the
night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a
select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. ” He met her questioning eye, and repeated,
“Oh! it IS a success. You intrigue me. “It was unpleasant while it lasted, but it is over
—and my toasted scones are delicious. “We should get out of here. "
"Confusion!" thundered Wild. In the '80s such a dress would have indicated considerable
financial means; under the sun-helmet it was an anachronism; and yet it served
only to add a quainter charm to the girl's beauty. The owner
of this dress had a broad weather-beaten face, small twinkling eyes, and a bushy,
grizzled beard. Both girls looked pale and listless. The big gray spaces of London, the shop-lit, greasy, shining streets, had
become very remote; the biological laboratory with its work and emotions, the
meetings and discussions, the rides in hansoms with Ramage, were like things in
a book read and closed. One of the most barbarous murders ever committed has just been
perpetrated by the monster Wild.
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