Every gibbet at Tyburn and Hounslow appeared to have been
plundered of its charnel spoil to enrich the adjoining cabinet, so well was it
stored with skulls and bones, all purporting to be the relics of highwaymen
famous in their day. “Go on!”
“People talked to you in Paris about us,” she continued, “about Anna the
virtuous and Annabel the rake. ‘I never met a rat what wandered about the place with a lantern, I didn’t,’
grumbled the old lodgekeeper aggrievedly. My name is Armytage—Lord Ernest Armytage. Lady Palsworthy was the widow of
a knight who had won his spurs in the wholesale coal trade, she was of good
seventeenth-century attorney blood, a county family, and distantly related to
Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. She found Rhea
trapped under a rock, her skeletal head exposed. If only Gerald would come. ”
Anna rose to her feet. He dragged it out, and perceiving, in spite of the
decayed frame, that it was the body of Sir Rowland Trenchard, commanded his
attendants to convey it up stairs—an order which was promptly obeyed.
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