Ramage looked at her for a long and discriminating interval without speaking. But ——” A look checked him. His father was one of my old customers, and I am happy to find his son treading in his steps. Her grave fine face, her warm clear complexion, had already aroused his curiosity as he had gone to and fro in Morningside Park, and here suddenly he was near to her and talking freely and intimately. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I came here this afternoon hoping particularly to see you for a few moments before you signed that contract. Part 7 Then one day a little thing happened that clothed itself in significance. She had only to get through this, to solace Manning as much as she could, to put such clumsy plasterings on his wounds as were possible, and then, anyhow, she would be free—free to put her fate to the test. I wonder, Ann Veronica, if, when our time comes, we shall be any wiser?” Ann Veronica watched a water-beetle fussing across the green depths. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to be turned to account hereafter. He had only to recall this fact (which he did in each crisis) to erect a barrier she could not go around or over. And I’m off to America, and if my steamer goes to the bottom of the Atlantic I’ll thank the Lord for it. ‘Mary was indeed naïve, but there I should say the similarity ends. ” “It’s rather jolly of you,” said Ann Veronica. C. .
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