Gerald switched to French. "My own father!"
Queerly the room and its objects receded and vanished; and there intervened a
series of mental pictures that so long as she lived would ever be recurring. He glanced at Miss Klegg again, and spoke
quickly and furtively, with eager eyes on Ann Veronica’s face. . The
moisture from the sea was constant, and she spent
countless hours staring at the sea from the west tower,
the rise and fall of waves. He was alert, well-groomed, and yet—perhaps in contrast with
the more volatile French type—there was a suggestion of weight about him, not
to say heaviness. That’s why I wanted your weapons. ‘Besides, I don’t want the
men blundering in here and frightening off our spy. Capes most unfair,” Miss Klegg went on in a small, even voice;
“MOST unfair! I’m glad you spoke out as you did. But, urged by his wife's cries, who was more anxious for the preservation of
her child's life than her own, he snatched up the infant, and made his escape
from the back of the premises. The crowning aspect of the incident, for her mind, was
the discovery that he and her indiscretion with him no longer mattered very
much. Might we ask
you if you have ever seen him, if you knew him at all before this evening?”
She stood up suddenly, and turning her back to them, looked steadily out of the
window.
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