’ She eyed him, all her uncertainty surfacing. “That is very nice of you,” she said. Jack appealed to the new auditors, and again detailed his story, but with no better success than heretofore. ‘But do you think I can blame you for this, Marthe?’ ‘I blame myself. ’ ‘Very much so,’ Gerald said, matching her tone, and at once forced the discussion back to his own point of interest by adding, ‘I was particularly struck by those poor Valades. A woman may choose any one for her lover, but for her friend she makes no mistake. You need fear no interruption from him, or any of his myrmidons. On returning to the audience-chamber, Jonathan found the inanimate body of Thames Darrell lying where he had left it; but, on examining it, he remarked that the pockets were turned inside out, and had evidently been rifled. I was not even sure whether it was loaded. Murder had become nothing to her. The back windows of the houses (where any such existed) were strongly barricaded, and kept constantly shut; and the fortress was, furthermore, defended by high walls and deep ditches in those quarters where it appeared most exposed. Prepared as he was for a dreadful shock, and with his nerves strung to endure it, Jack absolutely recoiled before the appalling object that met his gaze. His hands came up, his face broke apart.
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