"
"I am so," replied Thames, who had followed him closely. She almost sprang to her feet. ‘Your wife?’
‘My wife,’ he repeated, rising also, his smile mocking her. He went on munching his water-chestnuts, and stared at the skyline. ‘Eh bien, you are
not like Leonardo. He was unusually absurd and ready, and all the time it seemed to Ann
Veronica as a delightful possibility, as a thing not indeed to be entertained
seriously, but to be half furtively felt, that he was being so agreeable because she
had come back again. "It is the fiend!" she exclaimed, recoiling. "
"Well, then," returned the ruffian, "to put you out o' suspense, as the topsman
remarked to poor Tom Sheppard, afore he turned him off, I'm come to make you
an honourable proposal o' marriage. South America was big; but ten thousand islands, scattered all over
the biggest ocean on the map! Nearly all of them clear of the ship lanes and
beaten tracks! The best thing he could do would be to call up the Quai d'Orsay
and turn over the job to Lecocq. A boy
attempted to follow; but as the suspicions of the lookers-on were roused by the
previous circumstances, the younger fugitive was seized and detained. He
was—a millionaire.
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