. “Ah!” said Ramage, impressively. “You seem to be taking our little joke more seriously than it deserves, Ferringhall,” he remarked. Ascertaining that it was Sheppard of whom this concourse was in pursuit, the two horsemen leapt the hedge, and were presently close upon him. Capes scored back with an uncompromising vigor that was his way of complimenting her intelligence. . She tried to think what she should do in this eventuality or that. The detective backed out slowly and closed the door without sound. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. Out of an old family album: here was the very comparison that had eluded him. And God had let him do it! He was—and now he perfectly understood that he was—treading the queerest labyrinth a man had ever entered. "Besides, you'll not be able to get in without me. He had sufficient strength to wait upon himself. Somewhere she had read that it was the proper thing to do and that men liked to be alone with their tobacco.
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