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Noting the twinkle in her great-aunt’s eye, Melusine forebore to comment,
grateful to Lucilla for adjuring Captain Roding to give an account of himself. I daresay you have the whole thing wrong, Gerald. Anything else that was said she now regarded only as an
aspect of or diversion from that. ”
The maid discreetly withdrew, and Anna stood transfixed, gazing with puzzled
frown at her sister. It appeared from what he said that he had been captured when
asleep,—that his liquor had been drugged,—otherwise, he would never have
allowed himself to be taken alive. They must have a key. She let them
fall and sped to the companion, where she stood for a moment, the moonlight
giving her a celestial touch. ’
Melusine had crossed to the window that overlooked the front of the house,
and was trying to peep through a crack in the shutters. ”
It took some days for this phase to pass, and it left some scars and something
like a decision. Why ain’t you gorn? Seems to me I had ought to arrest you.
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