The conflict was of short duration; for Shotbolt was no match for his athletic antagonist. Two days after this conversation between Manning and Ann Veronica, Capes came into the laboratory at lunch-time and found her alone there standing by the open window, and not even pretending to be doing anything. Sheppard now directed her steps. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. “Well?” she said. “I know,” she said quietly, “that Paris, where she has been so much admired, is not a good place for her. To-morrow they will know the truth. "In Heaven's name! what's all this?" cried Wood. Already she knew that she was overstaying her welcome. "I took you for one who wouldn't hesitate to avail himself of any advantage chance might throw in his way," returned the thief-taker, coldly. Capes scored back with an uncompromising vigor that was his way of complimenting her intelligence. But whatever she may have said was lost as Gerald pinned her to the wall, the point of the sword at her throat. ” “How absurd!” Annabel declared. Valade, who was standing by her chair, glancing around the packed pink-papered saloon with a heavy frown on his face, was a thickset man of coarse, reddened feature, with a discontented air.
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