I
should scarcely have known you. Daughters were not like sons. ’
‘You wouldn’t,’ agreed Mrs Sindlesham. I would not
have him know—now—for the world. If she returns to the house from which we took her, her
companions will laugh at her and smother her with ridicule. It isn’t all. ”
“The inference is, then,” the detective said smoothly, “that this man obtained
admission to your rooms by means of a false key, that he burnt some papers here
and shot himself within a few moments of your return. "
"I'm convinced of it," replied Shotbolt; "and it was on that very account I came
here. "What do you mean by that, sirrah?" cried Wood, reddening with anger. The sound
of their strident voices floated upwards, the high nasal note of the predominant
Americans, the shrill laughter of girls quick to appreciate the wit of such of their
male companions as thought it worth while to be amusing. While the strife
raged between the principals, the watermen in the larger wherry were occupied
in stemming the force of the torrent, and endeavouring to keep the boats, they
had lashed together, stationary. Women, she had been taught, who exposed the flesh
of their bodies under the eyes of man were in a special catagory of the damned. "
"Nothing," echoed Wood furiously.
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