‘No one is here, Melusine, except
you and I. “I got your note just in time,” he remarked. I might have told you the
truth. She then dried her
eyes, and laying her child gently upon the floor, knelt down beside him. We will go to Ostend by the early morning boat and choose a hiding
place from there. Kneebone, having been alarmed by something in the widow's
look before her feelings found vent in the manner above described, thrust his
hand instinctively into his coat in search of his pocket-book,—about the security
of which, as it contained several letters and documents implicating himself and
others in the Jacobite plot, he was, not unnaturally, solicitous,—and finding it
gone, he felt certain he had been robbed. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock
had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and
prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. “I just came to you and put myself in your
hands. “You are my friend,” she said, “if any one is. "In case he should, I say," continued Thames, "will you promise to let Jack
Sheppard take my place in your affections, Winny?"
"Never!" replied the little damsel, "I can never love any one so much as you. The same night he met Meddoes and Drummond together, the latter over from
Paris on a week’s leave from the Embassy.
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