”
“Well?”
“Lunch! I am hungry—tragically hungry. CHAPTER XVIII
The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. As he looked up at
the massive tower, the clock tolled forth the hour of midnight. You would
be alarmed of how sulphurous it is, how sickeningly
sweet. "What the devil are you howling about?" cried Langley. ’
Melusine shook him off. The
Master of the Mint, with whom the Jacobite captain had often had transactions
before, vouched for their being men of honour and loyalty; and Kneebone was so
well satisfied with his representations, that he at once closed the matter by
administering to the applicants the oath of allegiance and fidelity to King James
the Third, and several other oaths besides, all of which those gentlemen took
with as little hesitation as the sum of money, afterwards tendered, to make the
compact binding.
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