”
She was able to go straight to her room without delay, and she at once locked the
door with a little sigh of relief. From under his pillow he
dragged forth the key to the trunk. So that the
thought of Ann Veronica up-stairs had been extremely painful for her through all
the silent dinner-time that night. "Forgive me—oh, forgive me!"
"Forgive you—bless you!" she gasped. ”
Ann Veronica could have wept with vexation. Did he not look for her in
the morning when she entered—come very quickly to her? She thought of him
as she had last seen him looking down the length of the laboratory to see her go. This mitigated her remorse enormously. ‘Precisely. He fancied, indeed, that he
beheld a figure spring upon the starling at the moment when the boats came in
contact; but, as he could perceive no one near him, he concluded he must have
been mistaken. "By that time, I shall have fully considered a plan which
occurs to me for defeating the schemes of your enemies. He addressed her by that title, and something in the tone disturbed
her. I next proceeded to Jenny Bunch's, the Ship, in Trig
Lane—there I got the same answer. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog.
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