’ ‘Now you come to mention it, it is stupid,’ Gerald said, struck. ’ He endured the inevitable scold with patience, saluted Mrs Chalkney’s faded cheek, and went off to endure the necessary delay with what patience he could muster. Ben had scarcely adjusted his oars, when the gleam of a lantern was seen moving towards the bank. ‘To the contrary, I will have you to know something. I had two slices. Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. I may tell him, at any rate, that you will see him?” “I shall like to see him,” Anna answered. I don't threaten idly, as you know. ” The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost ostentatious discretion. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their intricacies, to thread them on a dark night. '" "An ingenious device," laughed Gay. She would meet him upon this ground: he should never be given the slightest hint that she was unhappy.
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