They talked across their meal in an easy and friendly manner about Ann Veronica’s affairs. As Jonathan scarcely expected a more satisfactory result, he made no comment; but, ordering Quilt to continue his search, and not to return until he had found the fugitive, called Abraham Mendez into the house, and shut the door. “It’s not for us to supplicate any more. Langley is getting up, and coming this way. ” He coughed gently. CHAPTER XVIII The doctor reached for the key and studied it sombrely. The child was now within reach; and, in another moment, he would have executed his deadly purpose, if an arm from behind had not felled him to the ground. After encountering other dangers, and being twice, compelled to fling himself flat upon his face to avoid slipping from the wet and slimy pathway, he was at length about to emerge from the lock, when, to his inexpressible horror, he found he had lost the child! All the blood in his veins rushed to his heart, and he shook in every limb as he made this discovery. The chamber rang with her shrieks. He had not addressed to her even the most ordinary courtesy of fellow travellers; she doubted that he was even aware of her existence. Besides these there was a warm gooseberry-tart, and a cold pigeon pie—the latter capacious enough, even allowing for its due complement of steak, to contain the whole produce of a dovecot; a couple of lobsters and the best part of a salmon swimming in a sea of vinegar, and shaded by a forest of fennel. ” He said. There was nothing in his manner to suggest the misery of the preceding night. " "Till midnight," replied Jack.
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