I'm going to be frank; we must have a clear understanding. She drifted northward
from the Strand, and came on some queer and dingy quarters. ” He ducked out. I wonder——”
He turned slowly round. "
"Take care you don't fall into it yourself," returned Jackson, with a slight sneer. He really deserves a
better fate, does he not? He is so beautifully persistent. She is called
Madame Ibstock, you understand. ‘She has constituted herself leader of
the émigrés here, and feels justifiably slighted by having taken the pretend
Valades under her wing. Aha!" he
continued, producing a short silver staff, which he carried constantly about with
him, and uttering a terrible imprecation, "I see you're confounded. Descending the hollow, or rather excavation,—for it was an old disused clay-pit,
at the bottom of which the cottage was situated,—he speedily succeeded in
arousing the ancient sibyl, and having committed Edgeworth Bess to her care,
with a promise of an abundant reward in case she watched diligently over her
safety, and attended to her comforts till his return,—to all which Black Mary
readily agreed,—he departed with a heart lightened of half its load. A
cat came and rubbed herself against him as he entered the house, and seemed by
her mewing to ask him for food. She hadn't meant to ask anything for herself. Annabel seated herself in an
easy chair and determined to wait for her sister’s return. Conscious of Mrs. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
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