“Child!” he cried. Didn't understand me when I
said she would be compromised! He won't be able to leave his bed under four
weeks; and she said she hadn't much money. He's on the ragged
edge. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. ”
“I know. The
smell that emanated from the opening was abominable. ‘That’s what started the fracas,’ Gerald admitted ruefully, nursing his injured
hand as he recalled it. To his consternation,
she was holding an unwieldy, ugly-looking pistol, all wood and tarnished steel,
with both hands about the butt. My father was Colonel Pellissier. Perhaps it was just as well there was no inherited memory. ’
‘It’s too late for that,’ Gerald told her evenly. Lucy sat paralyzed, as still as
Tiger Lily on the death raft.
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