“The thing I feel most disposed to say, Miss Stanley,” he began at last, “is that this is very sudden. She got home every night in time to cook supper and it was good money. Twelve years, then, have elapsed since the date of the occurrences detailed in the preceding division of this history. I have discovered something of her background. ’ ‘She told you!’ ‘And,’ pursued Gerald, ignoring his friend’s scornful interjection, ‘that it was not always convenient to be dressed as a young girl. Outside stood a stocky, combat boot-clad girl of seventeen with a teased mass of spiky bottle-black hair. The roof was partially untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases, the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left free to the airs of heaven. When Jack came to speak of Jonathan Wild, his countenance fell. ‘Dreadfully untidy, is it not? Can’t abide bare rooms. “I think I can tell you something which may be very good news for you presently. ’ Her breath tightened and she was obliged to control an inner ferocity.
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