From this singular collection Trenchard turned to regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of so unscrupulous a miscreant. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. ” “I’m not. ’ ‘Yes, but how are you going to find her?’ ‘I will ask—’ She broke off. ’ ‘But Gérard knows. ” “Oh, no, please, no!” She reeled in shock and started 226 to back away from the open crypt. " There was another pause. ” “The inference is, then,” the detective said smoothly, “that this man obtained admission to your rooms by means of a false key, that he burnt some papers here and shot himself within a few moments of your return. . “What of her? Have you quarrelled with her?” The girl shook her head. ” She removed some posters from a chair, and seated herself coolly. Her life hangs upon a thread, and this may snap it. Old Newgate.
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