“In any case, I decline to see you alone. ‘Well, nothing,’ uttered her betrothed crossly, before Gerald could answer. You are nothing of the sort. She tried to be casual. Your sister! Great God, how like
she is to what you were!”
Annabel looked around her nervously. “Until you marry, Vee,” said Hetty. But perhaps I had better get a room in an hotel to-night
and look round. It was now
getting dusk, and he could only imperfectly distinguish the features and figure of
the stranger. The clock struck half-past ten. Below it a prodigiously large bolt
was shot into the socket, and, in order to keep it there, was fastened by a hasp,
and further protected by an immense padlock. South America was big; but ten thousand islands, scattered all over
the biggest ocean on the map! Nearly all of them clear of the ship lanes and
beaten tracks! The best thing he could do would be to call up the Quai d'Orsay
and turn over the job to Lecocq.
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