Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. Cold drops stood upon Wood's brow, as he encountered this obstacle. Eh bien, why did he not repeat it? What was she to say? ‘Prudence,’ she began hesitantly, pronouncing the name in the French way, ‘has said that she will help me to—to marry an Englishman. ‘He destroyed the papers?’ ‘That’s right,’ Roding said, throwing her a glance of frowning surprise, as if he had not rated her intelligence so high. They went into Michelle's tiny bedroom, bare except for a dresser, a closet, and a miniscule single bed that resembled her own at the Becks. “Gods,” she said, at last, “I’ve done it this time!” “Well!” She took up the neat morocco purse, opened it, and examined the contents. "Farewell!" cried Jack, breaking from them, and rushing down the street. But De Maupassant—sheer off! Stick to Dickens and Thackeray and Hugo. “Very well,” he said. And you shall have a share of the gold for yourself. You have just passed through rather a severe physical struggle; just as previously to your collapse you had gone through some terrific mental strain. ‘Don’t be too sure,’ responded Major Gerald Alderley on a dry note. ’ ‘Had the advantage of her this time,’ Roding put in before Gerald could respond. "Go on. I only arrived when everybody was coming away.
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