” “You must admit,” he declared, “that to us—who had seen you—the thought of your trying anything else was amazing. Courtlaw is looking after you, Miss Pellissier,” she said. The curtain came festooning slowly down, the music ceased, the lights in the auditorium glowed out, and Ann Veronica woke out of her confused dream of involuntary and commanding love in a glory of sound and colors to discover that Ramage was sitting close beside her with one hand resting lightly on her waist. What lends a tragic mockery to all these tender traps of hers was that she was within lawful bounds. At the end of two long lines of foot-guards stood the cart with a powerful black horse harnessed to it. The sidewalk resonated with the pounding of cold rain by the time she left the building. ‘Oh! little Vee!’ he cried, ‘little Vee!’ and put his face between his hands and sat still for a long time before he broke out again. Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. “Look here, daddy,” she said, in a tone of great reasonableness, “I MUST go to that dance, you know. From head to foot he was attired in the fashionable garb of the young man of the moment. You've nothing to do but to take possession. His attitude was as different from Gianfrancesco’s as night was from day. " "Very well, sir. ” “You mean—you think——” “Hush! I think that he was concealed in my room, and Annabel and he met there. Wonderful! The water, dripping from you, must have looked like pearls.
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