"By my soul," said the sexton, "that's as like Jack Sheppard as any one I ever
seed i' my born days. “I dare not,” she answered. Every word
you utter puzzles me. Are you sure you're not misinformed, Sir?"
"I was in the Lodge at the time," replied the jailer. She wished she had not
stood up. Didn’t I say that this whole
business of your camping in Remenham House was the one aspect I could not
puzzle out?’
‘You are very clever, monsieur Gérard,’ she conceded, although Gerald was
amused by the grudging note, ‘but in truth it is not yet my house. She was the actress his whim had chosen to play a passive
part. What a frightened fool he was!
If he could not remember her name, it was equally possible that already she had
forgotten his. Wearied at
length with thinking on the past, and terrified by the prospect of the future, he
threw himself on the straw with which the cage was littered, and endeavoured to
compose himself to slumber. ”
“We won’t go to any of these City places. Another horn now resounded from the further extremity of the thoroughfare; this
was answered by a third; and presently a fourth, and more remote blast, took up
the note of alarm. That was the Frenchie, Valade, surely. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. Quick, now.
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