These cogitations were
interrupted by the entrance of the doctor. "Why, Jack Sheppard, the notorious house-breaker,—him as has robbed half
Lunnun, to be sure. When they reached her rooms she stepped
lightly out upon the pavement. "Stop him!" shouted Jonathan from the stair-head, "stop him! It's Jack
Sheppard!"
"Give way!" cried Jack fiercely. To Ruth the thought of Hartford no longer projected upon her vision a city of
spires and houses and tree-lined streets. ‘I understand you have not been in England very long,’ he said in English,
noting that Madame raised her fan and lowered her gaze demurely. He had pictured her, if indeed she had
ever had the courage to do this thing, as sitting alone, convulsed with guilty fear,
starting at her own shadow, a slave to constant terror. But she certainly remembered that when she was a
little girl he sometimes wore tennis flannels, and also rode a bicycle very
dexterously in through the gates to the front door. ” She replied weakly. As for the doctor, he found a pleasure in this service that would have puzzled
him had he paused to analyse it. ’
‘His daughter, ma’am?’ Gerald asked. Her mother was a goddess to her all through her
youth, the mysterious ruler of all things beautiful and
wonderful and lunar, her eyes that glinted spectral blue, as
if she had the knowledge and the magic to raise the very
dead. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had
been robbed without knowing it. "When it thunders, the thief becomes honest," muttered Wood. "
Jack again seized the bar, and, dashing it furiously against the door, speedily
burst it open.
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