“Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I came here this afternoon hoping particularly to see
you for a few moments before you signed that contract. To be sure," he added, lowering his tone, "they wos little 'uns, and
one on 'em was smothered—ough! ough!—how this cough chokes me!"
Sheppard, meanwhile, whose hands were at liberty, managed to possess himself,
unperceived, of the spike of a halbert, which was lying, apart from the pole,
upon a bench near him. Prison was beastly. ‘If you had met her, you’d understand. . But I trusted to that ring of yours. There
are certain smells, certain tinges to the air. Where else could she go?’
‘And there aren’t too many of them around,’ agreed Hilary on a gloomy note. The lips were straight and
pale, the chin aggressive, the nose indomitable. “I can’t imagine, Miss Pellissier,” Brendon said, leaning towards her, “whatever
made you think of coming to stay if only for a week at a Montague Street
boarding-house. . ’
The lady uttered a scornful sound.
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