” “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. Now, as she stared at the image of her own face, she recalled something Major Alderley had said. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,” came to Ann Veronica’s ears. ***** Coconuts grew perpetually. There were moments when she doubted whether the whole mass of movements and societies and gatherings and talks was not simply one coherent spectacle of failure protecting itself from abjection by the glamour of its own assertions. Slowly and reluctantly she came to realize that Vivie Warren was what is called an “ideal. You may command my services at any time. Perhaps Ferringhall has pensioned her off. " "Willingly," replied Wild. " "What does it signify?" returned the latter, angrily. At the threshold of the study he bade her good-night; but he did not touch her forehead with his lips. 168 < 20 > HISTORY OF AN ABDUCTION She had not seen him for hundreds of years.
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