“Do you mind very much?” He shook his head. From this sorrowful state he was aroused by a loud derisive whistle, followed by a still louder laugh; and, looking up, he beheld the impudent countenance of Jack Sheppard immediately before him. Wood lifted up his hands in mute despair. She told us that it was a disguise. After all, it was what she had been praying for—and Annabel could not have known her address. People hounded him about the disappearances mercilessly for weeks after the concert, first the police, then the Becks, then people from school. “It is a night of endings,” she murmured to herself. Jack, whose clothes were covered with dust, and whose face was deathly pale from his recent exertion, looked more like a phantom than a living person. “I wonder if you will?” “Let me say one thing,” he said. I told him that I was not ‘Alcide. When he left these premises, three years ago, I took them from him; or rather—to deal frankly with you,—he placed me in them rent-free, for, I'm not ashamed to confess it, I've had losses, and heavy ones; and, if it hadn't been for him, I don't know where I should have been. Most people, every one I know else, seem to have mated with foreigners and to talk uneasily in unfamiliar tongues, to be afraid of the knowledge the other one has, of the other one’s perpetual misjudgment and misunderstandings.
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