I do not desire to
extenuate my guilt—far less to defend it; but I would show you, and such as you
—who, happily, are exempted from trials like mine—how much misery has to do
with crime. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. What better way to be rid of him?
‘Jacques,’ she uttered urgently. ’
‘You say—what?’ gasped Melusine. Sheppard. “Do you happen to know whether
she is supposed to be here?”
“Very likely indeed,” Captain Fred Meddoes answered, lighting a cigarette.
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