‘Gérard!’
‘Yes, it’s I,’ he said, and grinned. His
attention drawn, the captain was easily able to make out the pretty features under
the feathered hat, and the same dark riding habit the fugitive had worn on that
first occasion at Remenham House. She leaned back in her chair. The account of the discovery of Sir Rowland's murder filled Winifred with
alarm; but when she learnt what had befallen Thames—how he had been
stricken down by the thief-taker's bludgeon, and left for dead, she uttered a
piercing scream, fainted, and would have fallen, if Jack had not caught her in his
arms. "Oh! nothin' partickler—mere curossity," replied Terence. Lucy kicked her side, then her wounded leg,
dislodging her. It proved to be a human head, though with scarcely a vestige of the features
remaining. It did not matter in the least what name the young fellow
was travelling under; all James Boyle O'Higgins wanted was the letter H. They
walked in silence. Wood's reply, if he intended any, was cut short by a loud knocking at the
door. ’
‘Yes, that rather leapt to the eye,’ Gerald said, and the faint smile sent a lick of
warmth down inside her. And, mind, it's for his sister, Lady Trafford.
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