”
Miss Stanley reflected as Ann Veronica went toward the house. “You can look as innocent and shocked as you
please. She
was looking anxiously at the entrance to the restaurant. The thief-taker's throat
was bound up with thick folds of linen, and his face had a ghastly and
cadaverous look, which communicated an undefinable and horrible expression to
his glances. She walked down the station approach, past the neat, obtrusive offices of the
coal merchant and the house agent, and so to the wicket-gate by the butcher’s
shop that led to the field path to her home. In a second the glass lay shattered
upon the carpet. ‘To take a baby all the way to France without a wet-nurse. He could not doubt it. She
had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family,
had escaped. Girls
who had envied her former position as John’s amour
passed no opportunity to utter cryptic remarks as she sat
in Study Hall, walked down hallways, or rinsed her hands
in the bathroom. For it was not a good thing
to like one man too much when one was going to marry another. For what could be more ironical
than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber?
The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and
wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail. “I’ll try to stop by. " And
he conferred apart with Jonathan. “Your friend,
“DAVID COURTLAW.
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