Miss Stanley had determined from the
outset to have the warmest affection for her youngest niece and to be a second
mother in her life—a second and a better one; but she had found much to battle
with, and there was much in herself that Ann Veronica failed to understand. ‘Beg pardon, sir?’ asked the sergeant, evidently mystified. He, therefore, desires to
interrogate him. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. Of course, it was ridiculous, this
inclination to assist the fugitive, based as it was upon an intangible university
idea. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. The brown house,
almost exactly the same as the Beck’s, turned black as
pitch in the gloom. m. I questioned him too closely about his
possessions, and remarked upon the fact that he was a most inexpert driver,
although Meysey Hill had a great reputation as a motorist. “Since last night. “Impossible to say,” he answered. There are some islands upon which he is not permitted to land any more. ‘Is it soft, the way you seize me from
behind? Parbleu, my heart it is flown from my chest! Boom, boom, it goes, even
now.
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