“My friend,” she said, “no! Let me tell you this. Love!”
He held her arm and abandoned it again at her quick defensive movement. ”
“The inference is, then,” the detective said smoothly, “that this man obtained
admission to your rooms by means of a false key, that he burnt some papers here
and shot himself within a few moments of your return. ”
He was silent for some moments. But one of these days everything will click
back into place. ”
Lucy wanted badly to believe her. Wood, however, was too much excited to attend to the caution. In consequence of the infamous abuse of its liberties, an act for the entire
suppression of the Old Mint was passed in the ninth year of the reign of George
the First, not many months before the date of the present epoch of this history;
and as, after the destruction of Whitefriars, which took place in the reign of
Charles the Second, owing to the protection afforded by its inmates to the
Levellers and Fifth-monarchy-men, when the inhabitants of Alsatia crossed the
water, and settled themselves in the borough of Southwark,—so now, driven out
of their fastnesses, they again migrated, and recrossing the Thames, settled in
Wapping, in a miserable quarter between Artichoke Lane and Nightingale Lane,
which they termed the New Mint. ”
“Yes,” said his prospective fellow-sailor, “that’s very pretty. Over one of the pinnacles
of the tower a speck of pallid light marked the position of the moon, then newly
born and newly risen. I die happy—quite
happy in beholding you.
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