A hollow feeling opened up inside her, and she felt her
heartbeat quicken. On this fresh
outburst of the storm, Wood threw himself instinctively into the bottom of the
boat, and clasping the little orphan to his breast, endeavoured to prepare himself
to meet his fate. ’
‘How shocking,’ Gerald returned, grinning. Mac, she's the honestest
human being I ever saw or heard of; and at the same time she is velvet over steel. You do not love your husband, you have married him for a position
—to escape from—things which you feared. ”
“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. I saw her come out from the flat buildings two minutes before we entered
it last night. They were wed in Florence, in the grandest cathedral
she had ever seen, the Santa Maria del Fiore. ”
“I think I am. " The tone was neutral. Alarmed by these prognostications of a storm, and feeling too much exhausted
from his late severe treatment to proceed further on foot, Wood endeavoured to
find a tavern where he might warm and otherwise refresh himself.
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