His arms released from his
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sides, he lifted them around her in a light embrace. There was no one stirring in the flats. He it was
who formed the grand design of a robber corporation, of which he should be the
sole head and director, with the right of delivering those who concealed their
booty, or refused to share it with him, to the gallows. “You were there, were you?”
He laughed a little impatiently. ’
Gerald remained infuriatingly calm. ‘I must see the lady who is my
great-aunt. By his side sat a remarkably stout dame, to whom he paid as
much attention as it was in his iron nature to pay. Yet he’s been here for six years, and he’s as much a fixture as that
sham mahogany sideboard. ‘At last,’ he cried, ‘I have found
you!’ He would listen to nothing. She admired and rather pitied him, and she was
unfeignedly grateful to him. Much too young for
you.
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