’ The pathetic sob which accompanied the last word had a signal effect on two of the company at least. Lucy entered the house by picking the back door lock with the slim jim. ‘First I must see Jacques, and—’ ‘No need for that,’ intervened Roding, grasping her arm and trying to drag her to the door. In vain he fondly urged his suit, And, all in vain, the question put; She answered,—"Mr. " "By those who've conspired with me?" "No! by those who've entrapped you! You've long eluded our vigilance; but we've caught you at last!" "Damnation!" exclaimed the woollen-draper; "that I should be the dupe of such a miserable artifice!" "It's no use lamenting now, Captain! You ought rather to be obliged to us for allowing you to pay this visit. Any man might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. He had found her in a communicative mood, and he used the accumulated skill of years in turning that to account. A deep dread calm, like that which precedes a thunderstorm, now prevailed amongst the assemblage.
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