As to Thames, though deeply and painfully affected by the
horrible occurrence that had marked his return to his old friends, he was yet able
to control his feelings, and devote himself to the alleviation of the distress of the
more immediate sufferers by the calamity. It isn't your duty. The
spinsters were not kind; they were only curious because she was odd and wore a
dress thirty years out of date. A long and secret conference then
took place between the thief-taker and his myrmidons, after which they were
severally dismissed. She was wearing a
becoming tea-gown, and it was quite certain that Sir John would not be home for
several hours at least. . ’ With an air of real interest, he asked, ‘I suppose you did not dig a tunnel or
fly in by balloon?’
The lady gazed at him blankly. In a sense it alters nothing. But in that reservation it may be she went a little beyond the converse of his
view. “I cannot but conclude,” he said, “that your errand involved the recital to my
wife of some trouble in which you find yourself. One marked difference
between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had
sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a
mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored
to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of
events, was exhibited in the mouth. "It would avail him little if he did," replied Kneebone. ‘Their lawyers are
working tirelessly, but they report that the situation is daily worsening. ’
‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering
comment from the captain. Drummond smoked his
cigarette meditatively.
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