’ A strangled sob escaped her as his thumb dug cruelly into the soft flesh of her wrist. Ann Veronica was not ready enough to deal with that counter-stroke. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have to tell my part in it all, too. Picked up the photograph, looked at it, handed it back, and never batted an eye! The act was as clear as daylight, but the motive was as profoundly mysterious as the race itself. "Is my house to be made a receptacle for all your natural children, Sir? Answer me that. ‘All this gadding about. I chose you for your strength, your cunning, your intelligence, your great beauty. “An annuity—a sum of money paid to you yearly or quarterly through my solicitors, and which you can consider as a gift from your sister. “I’d chuck this lark right off if I were you, Vee,” he said. “So very clear and cold,” she said. An unexpected vacancy, wasn’t it? Every one comes in on unexpected vacancy. Everything goes—the copra for oil, the fibre of the husk for rope, and the shell for carbon. There sprang from that a vague hope that perhaps she might extort a capitulation from her father by a threat to seek that position, and then with overwhelming clearness it came to her that whatever happened she would never be able to tell her father about her debt. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you.
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