From under his pillow he
dragged forth the key to the trunk. Then Manning
flopped back in his chair and dropped his chin like a man shot. ”
“It is within yours—if anybody’s,” he answered. “If I had three hands,” she said, with a faint smile, “I would give one to each of
you. He was a
thin old man, a wreck in a ruined body, but nothing would induce him to stand in
any other way than as stiffly erect as possible like the soldier he had always
been, even though he was obliged to lean on his silver-handled cane to do so. Their doors stood open, and placards with big letters indicated the
section assigned to each. ’ He added on a teasing
note, ‘Though if there’s anything suspicious we can always get the key from
Pottiswick. "
"I am sorry. “Would YOU like us—if some one told you the bare outline of our story?—
and what we are doing?”
“I shouldn’t mind,” said Ann Veronica. It will be hot work, but it must be done at
once. ‘Where did you get that, miss?’
‘It is the sword of monsieur le major. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by
various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape
with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of
widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a
linsey-woolsey shawl. "
The attendant did not understand him. “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. It’s not
like we’re getting married.
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