‘Nothing would do for her but to come here,’ grumbled Hilary, wiping his heated brow with a pocket handkerchief dragged from his immaculate white uniform breeches. “I mean to go to that dance! I meant to reason with you, but you won’t reason. I’ve always had a sneaking desire for the writing-trade. She thought me— filthy. In vain Wood protested his innocence. But I expect him back every minute. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment. Gerald glanced down and saw her dash at a spread of blood on his own hand, only now realising that her dagger had found its mark. At this moment, Blueskin appeared with the lamp, and revealed a horrible spectacle,—the floor deluged with blood,—various articles of furniture upset,—papers scattered about,—the murdered man's cloak, trampled upon, and smeared with gore,—his hat, crushed and similarly stained,—his sword,—the ensanguined cloth,—with several other ghastly evidences of the slaughterous deed.
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