“Who are you—Annabel Pellissier or her ghost?” Anna laughed. "I came to see Jack Sheppard, and I won't go till you point him out to me. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock, under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally developed. Wouldn't it be fun to see his name on a book-cover some day? He'll go strutting up and down without ever dreaming he owed the whole shot to us. Understand me! I forbid it. ‘I do not steal,’ declared the lady hotly. " "Surely, you haven't stolen it?" "Stolen's an awkward word. “Do you think it is fair of you to persecute me just now?” “It is not persecution, Anna,” he answered gently. I had a vague sort of idea that this was the region where one finds apartments, so I told my cabman to drive in this direction while I sat inside his vehicle and endeavoured to form a plan of campaign. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. But in its stead—toward morning—there appeared another idea which appealed to him as sublime, appealed to the primitive conscience, to his artistic sense of the drama, to the poet and the novelist in him. Melusine came in, picked up the lantern, and heard the library door bang open just as the panel clicked closed behind her. “The numbers are a little difficult to see in the archway. ’ He grimaced.
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