As soon as she noticed the stranger, she honoured him with an extremely impudent stare, and scarcely endeavoured to disguise the admiration with which his good looks impressed her. He carried a cane and a silk hat with a mourning-band in one gray-gloved hand; his frock-coat and trousers were admirable; his handsome face, his black mustache, his prominent brow conveyed an eager solicitude. ‘Dieu du ciel, is this a way to have me say yes? If it is that you do not wish to, why do you ask me?’ ‘Ah. A brief calm succeeded. And thus it was that she came upon a book of Stevenson's verse—her first adventure into poetry. I find it impossible to associate you with—my little friend of the ‘Ambassador’s. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her. He would have to make sure of her silence. Had it come already? Chapter XXVII JOHN FERRINGHAM, GENTLEMAN “Confess, my dear husband,” Annabel said lightly, “that you are bewildered. People hounded him about the disappearances mercilessly for weeks after the concert, first the police, then the Becks, then people from school. Hidden menace; a prescience of something dreadful about to happen.
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