"
"You have no son," rejoined Sir Rowland, moodily. Lady Palsworthy was the widow of
a knight who had won his spurs in the wholesale coal trade, she was of good
seventeenth-century attorney blood, a county family, and distantly related to
Aunt Mollie’s deceased curate. “Of course,” she said diffidently, “this is a boarding-house, although we never
take in promiscuous travellers. He had died before they married, and when her brother became a widower she
had come to his assistance and taken over much of the care of his youngest
daughter. Actually, he had come all this distance simply to fulfil a certain clause in his
contract with Fate, to be in Canton on this particular day. Her feathered hat fell from her head and down
her back, and she felt fingers writhing in the mass of her hair and caressing the
flesh of her neck beneath so that she shivered uncontrollably. I am a young person seeking employment and freedom and
self-development, just as in quite our first talk of all I said I wanted to be. ’
The girl shook her head violently, setting the feathers on her hat bobbing. I could resist the tempter now, I am strong in health,—in mind. Leastways, she’d be your greataunt, wouldn’t she?’
Astounded, Melusine was just about to demand further information, when a
commotion outside the room interrupted her. I’m a man, and
I know what I mean. What are you going to tell me?"
"Nothing. "The sum which incited the villain to the murder," replied Jack.
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