All the turnkeys rose to salute the thief-taker, whose habitually-sullen countenance looked gloomier than usual. His only warning was a gleam of silver in the faint spill of light from the house above. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. He was as hard as a rock. "I should as soon have expected the bones of Tom Sheppard to reunite themselves and walk out of that case, as Thames Darrell to return. His frame was wasted, and slightly bent; his eyes were hollow, his complexion haggard, and his beard, which had remained unshorn during his hasty journey, was perfectly white. ‘And then vanished into thin air,’ rejoined Hilary on a sardonic note. ‘Bête!’ Gerald caught her hand as she pulled it back to deliver another blow. Both started. " "And shall find none," replied the Amazon. But if not himself, there would be another soon enough. “Are you sorry you waited, aunt?” she said.
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