Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished, and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. It was she who had come out from the flat only a few minutes before. Fortescue?” “At your service. "My servants, like Eastern mutes, must have eyes, and ears,— and hands, if need be,—but no tongues. So, adroitly and patiently, he pulled Ruth apart; that is, he plucked forth a little secret here, another there, until he had quite a substantial array. Why didn’t he die?” Anna sprang to her feet and walked restlessly up and down the room. "An hour hence, I shall return with the priest," replied Jonathan, striding towards the door. 84 < 12 > A SECOND DATE WITH JOHN DIEDERMAYER “Ding dong. ’ ‘But you must want more. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. When any violent outrage was committed,—and such matters were of daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence,—a bell, the rope of which descended into the hall, brought the whole of the turnkeys to their assistance. He could not see these two shrinking misses capering about in a nun’s habit and brandishing a defiant pistol. But no more of that.
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