She smiled and started for the stairs without reply. Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her mightily to think that she had ordered the promptest possible service of the dinner. When she had finished the first tale, there was a sense of disappointment. And, in addition, she was now seeing and talking to Ramage almost weekly, on a theory which she took very gravely, that they were exceptionally friends. "Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that? Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning?" "No. For a time Ann Veronica went on her way gauging the quality of sordid streets. To-morrow night —or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and, then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. Better get a dress. And, lastly, to the Seven Cities o' Refuge, in the New Mint. Jack, to the surprise of all his companions, at once surrendered himself: but Blueskin would have made a fierce resistance, and attempted a rescue if he had not been ordered by his leader to desist. I'll speak to McClintock to-night and see if he won't take us for a junket on The Tigress. The terror faded from her eyes. He had scarcely completed his toilet, when he was startled by a noise at the door, and heard his own name pronounced in no friendly accents. The candles—for McClintock never used oil in his dining room—were burning low in the sconces.
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