"I hardly know," returned Jack; "but it's not safe for me to remain much longer
here. A small handgun bobbed at the end of it,
aimed at Sheila. "
"That's better. She whispered, “Another car is coming,” as lights
approached their car. ‘Forgive my not rising to greet you,’ she said, holding out a claw-like hand. And they could
talk, they found; and never once, it seemed, did their meaning and intention
hitch. Restraining with an effort his
intense curiosity, he talked of general subjects only, trying his best to entertain
her. This is your room. This forthright dame was so excited,
she could not keep still, but paced about the parlour much as Melusine had done
earlier. "
"What do you mean?" asked the female, in astonishment. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. She stood up and he
sat down at the microscope, and for a time he was busy scrutinizing one section
after another. "
O'Higgins laughed. Well, I'll take myself off.
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