It was now
getting dusk, and he could only imperfectly distinguish the features and figure of
the stranger. Occasionally he would lean back and stare at the window which gave upon the
sea. “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be
lovers in the ordinary sense. He was ready
to seed his legacy, and you were a pawn to be moved out
of the way. You tell me he didn't like the stuff. And I passed myself off as Meysey Hill, and since—then—I
haven’t had a minute’s peace. "It is the last," continued the knight, sternly; "and I trust we may never meet
again, I have paid you this large sum—not because you are entitled to it, for you
have failed in what you undertook to do, but because I desire to be troubled with
you no further. ’
Gerald suppressed a grin. "
"You, Miss Enschede?"—frankly astonished that one stranger should offer
succour to another. Why should you want to shield him?"
"I really don't know. “Why shouldn’t one face the facts of one’s self?”
She stood up. Upon my word—you are Miss Pellissier, aren’t you?”
“I certainly am,” she admitted. It’s an emerald. But Gosse
began to drag her towards the door. One cannot trust any man at all.
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