And yet
to Spurlock it was only the title of a story he would some day write. It remains a bizarre idea to me that Lucy
Alberti could ever become so detailed or so real, but
I’m certainly glad to have made her acquaintance. The account of the discovery of Sir Rowland's murder filled Winifred with
alarm; but when she learnt what had befallen Thames—how he had been
stricken down by the thief-taker's bludgeon, and left for dead, she uttered a
piercing scream, fainted, and would have fallen, if Jack had not caught her in his
arms. "Why, what the devil would you have had me do!—make myself scarce, eh? You
should have tipped me the wink. So appalling was the sight, that
even the murderers—familiar as they were with scenes of slaughter,—looked
aghast at it. "Certainly," replied Jonathan, with the most perfect sangfroid, "I'll undertake to
free you from the boy. It was evident the lady’s servant knew his mistress, for he had come equipped
with a tray upon which reposed a decanter and two glasses. Never. He swung it open and
then used his body to pin her against her seat. “I would rather put up with your own
efforts, however clumsy. You won’t settle and I’m going mad. Jonathan
looked in that direction, and beheld the fugitives riding off in triumph. “And some of them quite
pretty and well dressed. He might have supposed the fellow would be eager to be rid of the tale, for
that he might have longer to enjoy the amenities of the Triumphal Chariot where
the meeting had been appointed. ”
Lucy wanted badly to believe her.
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