She looked paler than ever; but her countenance, though bewildered, did not
exhibit the alarm which might naturally have been anticipated from the strange
and perplexing scene presented to her view. “MY DEAR VERONICA,—Your aunt tells me you have involved yourself in
some arrangement with the Widgett girls about a Fancy Dress Ball in London. Over the Lodge, upon a dial was inscribed the
appropriate motto, "Venio sicut fur. For some days we shall be very idle there among
the trees and rocks. The eyes, too,
though large and bright, and shaded by long lashes, seemed to betoken, as hazel
eyes generally do in men, a faithless and uncertain disposition. After he was gone in
the morning, Ruth would steal into the study and hurriedly read what he had
written the previous night. It doesn’t matter. ’
He slid slowly down and collapsed to the stone floor, fainting dead away. ‘Um—begging your pardon, sir, but—um—what was you meaning to arrest
the young lady for?’
‘Trespassing, theft, and suspicion of spying,’ announced Roding fluently. Here, take this youngster, Terry; my legs are lighter than old Nab's. "
O'Higgins tore free the scarlet band of his perfecto, the end of which he bit off
with strong white teeth, and smiled. “You doubted me?” She joked. "It's a
mysterious transaction altogether.
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