‘I have justice. She pulled her veil down, and he knew that silence was best. . Do you recall the night she showed you the face in the locket? Do you remember how she said—'If only my mother had lived'? Did you ever see anything more tender or beautiful?" "I remember. ‘And you come to me, thinking yourself half French, and expect me to take you in. ‘What are you going to do now, Gerald?’ He sipped his wine and shrugged. She whipped round suddenly, and discovered the woman wedged into the corner by the window, keeping out of the way. The Committee of Secrecy—that English Council of Ten—were sitting, with Walpole at their head; and the most extraordinary discoveries were reported to be made. She started at the falling of a leaf, at the lumbering of a cow through the hedge. It was not without considerable demur and delay on the part of Sharples that the carpenter and his companion could gain admittance to the round-house. Indeed, I've heard him say that, but for his wife, he would shelter her under his own roof. A little inn flying a Swiss flag nestles under a great rock, and there they put aside their knapsacks and lunched and rested in the mid-day shadow of the gorge and the scent of resin. Sir John and Annabel seated themselves at one of them, and the proprietor himself, a small dark-visaged man, radiant with smiles, came hurrying up, followed by a waiter. Impassive by nature and training, he was conscious to-night of a strange sense of excitement, of exhilaration tempered by a dull background of disappointment. Besides, Gerald would not for the world have passed up the chance of a little excitement.
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