The
door to the library burst open. Hopefully. In military
circles, highly exaggerated tales of Major Alderley’s derring-do were bruited
from lip to lip and passed on to raw recruits to strengthen morale. Sleep did not come easily, but eventually her mind
stopped its chattering and she fell into a deep slumber. Her aunt was blandly amiable above a certain tremulous
undertow, and talked as if to a caller about the alarming spread of marigolds that
summer at the end of the garden, a sort of Yellow Peril to all the smaller hardy
annuals, while her father brought some papers to table and presented himself as
preoccupied with them. The idiots are marching through the streets in
processions from town to town, whipping their own
backs until they are covered in blood, spreading the
bloody Pestilence wherever they go! The dead pile in the
streets like timber. If you attempt to play the
traitor, you will do so at the hazard of your life. ’ Melusine sighed in a satisfied way. An immediate halt took
place. "Show me your warrant!" said Wood, almost driven to his wit's-end; "perhaps it
isn't regular?"
"Ask him who he is?" suggested Thames. .
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