“You must arrest me!” she gasped, breathlessly, insisting insanely on a point
already carried; “you shall!”
The police-station at the end seemed to Ann Veronica like a refuge from
unnamable disgraces. They will claim particular attention hereafter. ’
Gerald smiled. Bribed by a
certain Sir Rowland Trenchard, Jonathan kidnapped the carpenter's adopted son,
Thames Darrell, and placed him in the hands of a Dutch Skipper, with orders to
throw him overboard when he got out to sea; and though this was proved as clear
as day, the rascal managed matters so adroitly, and gave such a different
complexion to the whole affair, that he came off with flying colours. Now let us forget it. I had
nosebleeds that day and I got halfway up the rope before
I fell off. “Don’t we all rather humbug about the coarseness? All we women, I mean,”
said she. If only to say goodbye. "Not dangerously, I hope," returned Thames; "but fly—save yourself. I cannot
have my wife distressed or worried. ‘But how did she meet such a person in a convent?’
‘He was wounded and came there for sanctuary,’ Gerald explained, adding
almost through his teeth. Here was the corner-stone of a capital story; but he knew that
Howard Spurlock would never write it. I
have made up my mind to insist upon moving from here into Park Lane, or one
of the Squares. She pulled her hand away quickly. So she built a shrine.
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