. ’
‘Can you prove it?’ demanded Hilary. "
"I wish I could have foreseen. "
"It came from Lady Trafford's jewel-box. Do you
know, I am beginning to believe that we only exist nowadays by the tolerance of
these millionaire tradesmen. "
"What gives you that idea?"
"Well, we could find no letter of credit, no letters, no labels in his clothes—not a
single clew to his real identity. You have all the
instinctive dexterity of parasites. ‘I know, Melusine. After debating with himself whether he should further seek an interview, which,
though, now in his power, was so sedulously shunned by the other party, he
decided in the negative; and contenting himself with writing upon a slip of paper
the hasty words,—"You are known by the villagers,—be upon your guard,"—he
gave it to the ostler, with instructions to deliver it instantly to the owner of the
horse he pointed out, and pursued his course. . A physiognomist, indeed, would
have likened him to that crafty animal, and it must be owned the general
formation of his features favoured such a comparison. ’
‘But I find it was extremely kind of him,’ protested Melusine, ‘and since it is
that he is not any more under arrest—’
‘No, he ain’t,’ interrupted Trodger in some dudgeon. Just speak
the word," he added, drawing the knife significantly across his throat, "and I'll
put it out of his power to do the same by your second. ' Will that do?"
"It will," replied Trenchard.
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