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Chapter III
ANNA? OR ANNABEL?
Sir John was wholly unable to understand the laugh and semi-ironical cheer
which greeted his entrance to the smoking-room of the English Club on the
following evening. ” Lucy said. Ruth, standing by, heard his true laughter for the first
time. "What the devil are you about! Will you allow
yourself to be beaten by a couple of kids?"
"Not if I can help it," returned Abraham, making a desperate effort to regain his
feet. The windows of these rooms were obscured
with draperies, their floors a carpet patchwork; the china ornaments on their
mantels were of a class apart. ’
Even as they watched, a shadow passed across one of the apertures. . “What can one do?” asked Ann Veronica. ’
Melusine might have responded that she had not asked him, but she was too
intent on her mission. I charged the thief-taker, as was the
fact, with having robbed me, by means of the lad Sheppard, whom he instigated
to deed, of the very pocket-book he produced in evidence against me; but it was
of no avail—I couldn't obtain a hearing. You’d make a good Devil. He was officially in the nun’s employ, but Melusine had
commandeered his services immediately on the discovery that he had conceived
a passion for her. “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’
one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and
Drummond and his lot were with us.
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