"Here's a pistol!" cried Thames, darting towards the undischarged weapon
dropped by Blueskin in the scuffle, and pointing it at Jonathan. ‘Do you mean to tell me,’ enquired the captain at length, ‘that you have had
the infernal audacity, the—the gall, the—the— Gad, it’s an outrage! You’ve
stolen a horse from a priest?’
‘I did not steal it,’ protested Melusine hotly. And I have no doubt at all that there is a great deal of money in the
case. Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. ”
The official frowned. “Really, Vee, you seem to have advertised our relations
pretty generally!”
“They—they knew, of course. A few feet away, across the low vases of pink
and white roses, sat Annabel, more beautiful to-night perhaps than ever before in
her life.
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