By Wild's command the prisoner was taken to the Condemned Hold, whither he was followed by the whole posse of officers and by the partners; two of whom carried large hammers and two the fetters. Chapter XXIV A CASE FOR THE POLICE After that first horrible moment it was perhaps Anna who was the more selfpossessed. ” She chilled Ann Veronica a little by that last phrase, and yet the magnetism of her fellowship and enthusiasm was very strong; and it was pleasant to be made out a heroine after so much expostulation and so many secret doubts. Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term for it; she had no precise commentary to offer. Do you know what Spurlock has done?" "Mr. " Thames hastily cast his eyes over it, and transferred it, with a look of incredulity, to Wood. " "This I do know," continued Jack,—"Jonathan Wild superintends the attack. "To-night, your ladyship?" ventured an elderly domestic. For an instant, Gerald wished the rest of the world away that he might go to her and administer appropriate comfort. On the right, stood a bulky figure, with a broken rattle hanging out of his great-coat pocket, who held up a lantern to his battered countenance to prove to the spectators that both his orbs of vision were darkened: on the left, a meagre constable had divested himself of his shirt, to bind up with greater convenience a gaping cut in the arm. It came to Ann Veronica one night after a long talk with Miss Miniver, as a sudden remarkable thing, as a grotesque, novel aspect, that this slowly elaborating biological scheme had something more than an academic interest for herself. The man or woman who did something for nothing always excited his suspicions; they were playing some kind of a game.
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