Part 6
He became quite sure, by a sort of accumulation of reflection, as the day wore
on. "
He started to pick up a sheet of manuscript, but she pushed him from the table
toward the doorway; and he staggered out of the bungalow, suddenly stretched
his arms, and broke into a trot. “Is that so? Who says?” He demanded, his eyebrows
arching as he looked at her with puerile glee. What do you mean by
it, eh?’
‘But I did not send it to you,’ Melusine rejoined instantly. "You hear," pursued Jonathan; "my friend desires to know if you are willing to
pay your footing as a member of the ancient and respectable fraternity of
debtors?"
"I owe no man a farthing, and my name shall never appear in any such rascally
list," replied Wood angrily. "'It was all perfectly
legal?
"My word for it. There’s stories, too, about his
demonstrator, Capes Something or other. ”
They left the restaurant just as the rain slowed to a dull
trickle, the fury of the storm exhausted, having left mirror
puddles in its wake. Thames took it, and beheld the portrait of a young man, apparently—judging
from his attire—of high rank, whose proud and patrician features certainly
presented a very striking resemblance to his own. Wood, then, beheld two persons,
one of whom he recognised as Rowland, spring on board the chase. The future was not so
black. ’
A laugh escaped her.
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