And then amusement crept into Alderley’s chest and he let his
pistol hand fall. ‘I dropped the lantern,’ Jack’s muffled voice told her. When the word “FREAK” appeared
scratched in the persimmon colored paint on her locker,
she knew that in some fragile young woman’s mind a war
had escalated from imaginary to physical. “By-the-bye, Lady Ferringhall,” he said, “do you know that I am a very great
admirer of your sister’s? I wonder if she has ever spoken to you of me. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely
against the reserve he had set between them. "An audience might have frightened the
birds. Wood, you shan't lord it over me, I can
promise you. "
CHAPTER XX
To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting
out the old world.
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