“I ought never have gone to the Zoo, I suppose. Not with the unavoidable explanations, and the need to secrete the sword and hide it before returning the priest’s horse to its stable—which had been her excuse for running from Martha’s protestations. Her dainty shoes were soiled with dust and there was a great tear in her skirt. “I have waited for this,” he said, and stood quite still, looking at her until the silence became oppressive. Exerting all his energies, and using the bar as a lever, he forced off the iron band, which was full seven feet high, seven inches wide, and two thick, and which brought with it in its fall the box of the lock and the socket of the bolt, leaving no further hinderance. As she talked she made weak little gestures with her hands, and she thrust her face forward from her bent shoulders; and she peered sometimes at Ann Veronica and sometimes at a photograph of the Axenstrasse, near Fluelen, that hung upon the wall. Surely he was imagining this picture. It is only a matter of time before he presents himself to whoever has the deeds to Remenham House—a lawyer I presume—and claims that property for his wife’s. What of Gosse, whom those soldiers had allowed to escape? Hiding—or perhaps gone. At the end of two long lines of foot-guards stood the cart with a powerful black horse harnessed to it. Have we not received Lady Bicknacre just this morning? Not to mention the Comtesse de St Erme. ’ Gerald grinned. So absorbed was she by her passionate supplications that she was insensible to anything passing around her, until she felt a touch upon her shoulder, and heard a well-known voice breathe in her ear—"Mother!" She started at the sound as if an apparition had called her, screamed, and fell into her son's outstretched arms. "But if it is your mother, send her about her business.
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