Chapter XXIX
MONTAGUE HILL PLAYS THE GAME
The man opened his eyes and looked curiously about him. ‘Well,’ began Captain Roding, looking at Melusine, ‘you know those nuns of
yours took up Valade—I mean, Gosse—and put him to bed to mend his wound,
and I posted a guard outside his room so he couldn’t escape, for Gerald told you
all that. There was only one sound—the
fall of the sea upon the main beach, and even that said: "Hush! Hush! Hus-s-sh!"
Not a leaf stirred, not a shadow moved. He grunted, and his
grip gave. Or had
you not noticed?’ He sneered. You go cheer him up. Men were going
hither and thither with barrows, and ladders and ropes, removing the rubbish,
and trying to support the tottering habitations. "He hash eshcaped!" cried the Jew. . He leaned forward to better
drink her in. That was the Frenchie, Valade, surely. "
"Everything. And
now," she added, glancing contemptuously at the woollen-draper, "I'll go to Jack
Sheppard. Only of course I must begin
something else at once. Manning regarded her thoughtfully for a moment and stroked his
mustache.
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