CHAPTER THE FOURTH
THE CRISIS
Part 1
We left Miss Stanley with Ann Veronica’s fancy dress in her hands and her
eyes directed to Ann Veronica’s pseudo-Turkish slippers. “Soon enough, John. Who says that I am not Meysey Hill?
I was trying to scare you. "
"A miniature! Of whom?"
"That I can't say," replied Jack, mysteriously. He doesn't resemble you
at all. With a cry of triumph, he rose, the sword hilt grasped in his fingers, the point
swishing up towards her. ’
He saw that Mrs Sindlesham, for all her vaunted freedom of speech, was
honestly shocked by this revelation. ”
“Perhaps,” she said, “I am superstitious. Owing to this circumstance, Mr. Blueskin drew the knife
across his throat a second time, widening and deepening the wound; and
wrenching back the head to get it into a more favourable position, would
infallibly have severed it from the trunk, if the officers, who by this time had
recovered from their terror, had not thrown themselves upon him, and withheld
him. 153
The halls emptied with special urgency as teens rushed
forth into heated cars and buses to make the mad dash
home before the coming storm.
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