I have made her an
honourable proposal of marriage, in compliance with the request of her lamented
parent, whose memory—"
"Dare to utter that falsehood in my hearing again, scoundrel," interrupted
Thames fiercely, "and I will put it out of your power to repeat the offence. ‘Whereas my need was very great indeed. He had but to give his orders. I must obey. He loaded
the launch with a thousand pounds—all she could carry—and started home
immediately after sundown; but even then he lost from a hundred to a hundred
and fifty pounds before he had the stuff cached in McClintock's bamboo-covered
sawdust pit. There was a dreadful stifled groan, and she fell
heavily upon the landing. She was dressed as a white woman should be; and
that for the present satisfied her instincts. At every step he
seemed to be haunted by the ghost of the past. “Well,” she said, “good-night, father. “No, he wouldn’t come here of all
places—just now. We have him as safe as a linnet in a cage; and could wring
his neck round as easily. “The truth!”
Annabel bent over her and whispered in her sister’s ear.
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