”
With a murmured word of excuse she glided away, and Courtlaw, who had come
with a mission which seemed to him to be one of life or death, was left to listen
to the latest art jargon from Chelsea. ’
‘It’s already known,’ said Mrs Sindlesham, ‘judging by the number of callers
we have had these two days. Ah!"
he exclaimed, as his eye fell upon a small knob in the wall, "there's the spring!"
He touched it, and the door flew open. Wood. The commissionaire
stood there, tall and imperturbable. Covering his face with a crape mask, and taking the candle
from his associate, Jack entered the room; and, pistol in hand, stepped up to the
bed, and approached the light to the eyes of the sleepers. ”
CONTENTS
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
CHAPTER THE SECOND
CHAPTER THE THIRD
CHAPTER THE FOURTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTH
CHAPTER THE EIGHTH
CHAPTER THE NINTH
CHAPTER THE TENTH
CHAPTER THE ELEVENTH
CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
CHAPTER THE THIRTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FOURTEENTH
CHAPTER THE FIFTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SIXTEENTH
CHAPTER THE SEVENTEENTH
ANN VERONICA
CHAPTER THE FIRST
ANN VERONICA TALKS TO HER FATHER
Part 1
One Wednesday afternoon in late September, Ann Veronica Stanley came
down from London in a state of solemn excitement and quite resolved to have
things out with her father that very evening. This charming episode was repeated
three times. The room was papered with green, large-patterned
paper that was at worst a trifle dingy, and the arm-chair and the seats of the other
chairs were covered with the unusual brightness of a large-patterned chintz,
which also supplied the window-curtain. She read for half an hour, then closed the book because
Spurlock appeared to have fallen asleep. She barely heard a word that Martin or
Brown said, until Martin’s voice chimed. The Disguise
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VI.
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