She could have dined alone in her room; but courage had demanded that she face the ordeal and have done with it. For a time Ann Veronica’s attention was diverted by her aunt’s interest in the salted almonds. Racing, he reached it perhaps a moment or two later. Drummond smoked his cigarette meditatively. Deserted by his older companion in iniquity, and instigator to crime, he did not know what might become of him; nor, as we have observed, was the sad spectacle he had just witnessed, without effect. After occupying himself thus for the best part of an hour, he thought Jack must have given him the slip. While they were thus occupied, a maid-servant entered the room, and stated that a person was without who had a packet for Captain Darrell, which must be delivered into his own hands. It was always jabbing him with white-hot barbs, waking or sleeping. I can help you to both,—nay, I will help you to both, if you do not interfere with my plans. “I think,” he said, “that I am right. " This simple admission disarmed McClintock. If I had never met anything of you at all but a scrap of your skin binding a book, Ann Veronica, I know I would have kept that somewhere near to me.
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