"I beg pardon, Sir," replied Jack, with the accent and manner of the janizary; "I was betrayed into the exclamation by my surprise that anything in which Sir Rowland Trenchard was interested could have reference to so humble a person as Mrs. ‘One of they Frenchies, that’s what I say—if it ain’t a ghost. I suppose that’s the gist of the whole thing. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had been robbed without knowing it. She attempted by a sheer act of will to end the scene, to will herself out of it anywhere. Regardless of the risk he incurred from some heavy stone dropping on his head or feet,—regardless also of the noise made by the falling rubbish, and of the imminent danger which he consequently ran of being interrupted by some of the jailers, should the sound reach their ears, he continued to pull down large masses of the wall, which he flung upon the floor of the cell. ‘No!’ Melusine snapped as he tugged at the thing. ‘You have said you do not wish to marry me,’ she accused. ’ Melusine’s eyes flashed. She began to think persistently of Capes, and it seemed to her now that for some weeks at least she must have been thinking persistently of him unawares. She doubted how she stood toward him and what the restrained gleam of his face might signify. She lunged without warning again, and Gosse, just catching her blade on his own, was obliged to retreat backwards up the little stair. . . ’ ‘Then do it,’ Melusine said with impatience.
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