’
She tried to shake his hands off her wrists, but Gerald held them fast and
tutted at her. "
"But I never told you how the natives fished. It was she who had
come out from the flat only a few minutes before. “It is true,” he said, “that I was dining last night at a restaurant in the Boulevard
des Italiennes, and it is true that my companion was a young lady whose name is
Pellissier. Why?"
"I was just wondering. I have done from
the first moment I saw you. I could not keep away any longer. “I wish,” she said, “that you would leave off looking at me as though I were
something grisly. I was certain of it. Look! Is that some one
coming out?”
The front door of the flats stood open, and through it a woman, slim and veiled,
passed on to the pavement and turned with swift footsteps in the opposite
direction. "
"And you must have risked much to obtain it, my love. The hand which the man
had been holding hung limp and nerveless at her side. ’
They passed through a little antechamber, and Melusine sighed with relief as
she entered the library next door.
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