Instead of passing on, as
Jack expected, these persons stopped opposite the cage, when one of them, as he
judged from the sound, for he did not dare to look out of his hiding place,
dismounted. “And to-night we are friends?”
“We are friends,” said Ann Veronica, and drew her hand quickly away from
him. With the immediate necessities in train, Melusine fell to brooding on her
situation, which she found insupportable. A chain, riveted to an iron belt encircling her waist, bound
her to the wall. "But if he had not
fired that shot, he might have saved Thames, and possessed himself of papers
which would have established his birth, and his right to the estates of the
Trenchard family. "Ha!" he exclaimed, with a sudden start, as his glance
fell upon the portrait; "how came this into your possession, boy?"
"Why don't you answer, sirrah?" cried Wild, in a savage tone, and striking him
with the silver staff. He had the air of a man who has said too much.
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