"A thousand pounds," he observed, gloomily, "is a heavy price to pay for doubtful secrecy, when certain silence might be so cheaply procured. "Shortly after your last visit to Dollis Hill, my father was one evening waylaid by a man, who informed him that he had something to communicate respecting Thames, and had a large sum of money, and some important documents to deliver to him, which would be given up, provided he would undertake to procure your liberation. It dawned upon him that he had been abominably used by Ann Veronica. It was long and narrow, a well-lit, wellventilated, quiet gallery of small tables and sinks, pervaded by a thin smell of methylated spirit and of a mitigated and sterilized organic decay. " "What did I say?" "Only one word," she said, offering her first white lie. Alas! that the punishment of his offences should fall on her head. "Well, like or not, I'm greatly pleased with it, and must beg it from you as a memorial——" "Of what?" she interrupted, startled by his change of manner. “Who the hell are you, Lucy?” “Promise me you will never tell anyone. ’ ‘Do you indeed?’ rejoined the old lady, twinkling at him, and urging him towards the door. ‘And you know, my dear, I do think you must make up your mind to beard this wretched grandfather of yours. ” “We will go to a very quiet place,” he assured her, “a place where I have often taken my own sisters. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me out of that. Sheppard. At length, about three o'clock, as the first glimmer of dawn became visible through the barred casements of the round-house, the rattling of bolts and chains at the outer door told that some one was admitted. Is there?” “Nothing,” said Ann Veronica, with a radiant face.
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