You are—or rather you were——” he corrected
himself with an unpleasant little laugh, “Miss Pellissier, eh?”
A little sensation followed upon his words. But a far
greater affliction was in store for her. They bounced without
merriment over bumpy Roman roads, and by the time
they arrived she was extremely nauseous. Arrived at the audience-chamber, he set down the light upon a stand,
threw open the door, and announced in a loud voice, but with the perfect
intonation of the person he represented,—"Sir Rowland Trenchard. And as she was yet waiting for her tea to come she saw this man
again. \" She tried not to stare at Shari who had resumed
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sipping the drugged cocoa. ’
Melusine stifled a giggle. "
"By those who've conspired with me?"
"No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but
we've caught you at last!"
"Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a
miserable artifice!"
"It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for
allowing you to pay this visit. You will have to tell me.
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