"Before to- morrow night that boy shall join his father. ” She marked an hotel that seemed neither opulent nor odd in a little side street opening on the Embankment, made up her mind with an effort, and, returning by Hungerford Bridge to Waterloo, took a cab to this chosen refuge with her two pieces of luggage. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. She pointed hither and yon, smiled and shook her head. "He thwarted my schemes twice. ‘I suppose this is the cavalier you had with you when you—er—attended the ball the other night?’ ‘Jacques is very useful to me,’ Melusine confirmed, bestowing that same radiant smile on the young man, whose features were instantly suffused with scarlet. ‘Now what?’ The girl’s voice was shaking, and there were, he saw now, angry tears in her eyes. You denied it at the time—but unfortunately I have proof. They turned off at Glen Grove, a sleepy town of less than two hundred. He had not noticed the girl particularly when she offered the sandwiches; but in this moment he found her beautiful. " "On the contrary," rejoined Smith, looking askance at his companion, "I happen to know you're in the right. The envelope might contain only a request as to what he wanted done with the manuscripts. Consternation gripped him.
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