"
"In that case I arrest you, and your confederate, Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, on
a charge of felony," returned Wood, brandishing his staff; "resist my authority, if
you dare. ” Lucy said
softly. \"Thanks for walking me home. “I am afraid,” he said gravely, “that your sister has been a little indiscreet. 175
“Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized
the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. I questioned him too closely about his
possessions, and remarked upon the fact that he was a most inexpert driver,
although Meysey Hill had a great reputation as a motorist. Wood, with a look meant to
reduce her supposed rival to the dust. And she was about as capable of intelligent argument as a runaway
steam-roller. ‘I—I mean, she were—’
‘Pretty as a picture?’ suggested Gerald. A
girl—at my age—is grown-up. The second, comprising the bulk of the jail, and by many
degrees worse in point of accommodation, having several dismal and noisome
wards under ground, was common both to debtors and malefactors,—an
association little favourable to the morals or comforts of the former, who, if they
were brought there with any notions of honesty, seldom left with untainted
principles. ”
“It is over for now,” he answered, “but I cannot bear to think that you are subject
to this sort of thing.
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