" "Oh Heavens!" cried Jack, driven to his wits' end. Her mind left her. ‘When I thought to make them sympathique for me, with a little tear, you understand, and some tricks feminine of this kind—’ ‘Feminine tricks, too?’ cut in Gerald admiringly, controlling a quivering lip. These women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter! Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders! She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. ’ Taking the chair she had indicated with a careless wave of one stiff-fingered hand, Gerald felt hope burgeoning. As he gazed down into the courts of the prison, he could not help shuddering, lest a false step might precipitate him below. ’ ‘We are not all of us so empty-headed, Melusine,’ pleaded Miss Froxfield. "Nothing whatever," rejoined the thief-taker, coldly. ‘Imbecile. “I believe,” he said stiffly, “that these are the apartments of Miss Pellissier. "At the Black Lion in our street," replied Jack, without hesitation. But I do hope, Vee, I do hope—this is the end of these adventures.
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