Chapter XXIV
A CASE FOR THE POLICE
After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. “I did not,” Anna answered. ‘I am glad
it is you, because you can help me. ‘Merci, Joan,’ cried Melusine, moving to her and seizing her hand which she
clasped between both her own for a moment, as she turned to the others. . By some it was affirmed that a subterranean
communication existed between the thief-taker's abode and Newgate, by means
of which he was enabled to maintain a secret correspondence with the
imprisoned felons: by others, that an under-ground passage led to extensive
vaults, where such malefactors as he chose to screen from justice might lie
concealed till the danger was blown over. It’s
too valiant, Miss Stanley, too valiant altogether!”
Ann Veronica meditated. You are
somebody’s secretary, are you not?”
It was plain that the subject was distasteful to her, but Ennison, although famous
in a small way for his social tact, did not at once discard it. He caressed
her tenderly, with no trace of the Sebastian who had
previously knocked her off her feet with a slap across the
mouth. Both advanced towards it,
when, by the light of the lantern, Wood beheld, in the countenance of the
stranger, the well-remembered and stern features of Rowland.
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