” The topic of his invalid wife bored him, and he turned at once to Ann Veronica. He drew compellingly upon his new characters to keep him out of this melancholy channel; but they ebbed and ebbed; he could not hold them. “Do not be frightened, dear,” she said. But he was always forcing her to say and do such unexpectedly conclusive things. His face was a little flushed perhaps, and his small, brown eyes were bright. And if he would, I would not subject him to the annoyance. ‘Very wise,’ he commented, slightly relaxing his arm. “Drive to 13, Montague Street, cabman,” she ordered. Anna nodded as she briskly crossed the pavement. What could be simpler than, with a set of inquiries relative to a South Sea tramp registered as The Tigress, to make a tour of all the marine insurance companies in HongKong? O'Higgins proceeded to put the idea into action; and by noon he had in his possession a good working history of the owner of The Tigress and the exact latitude and longitude of his island. “What have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism, crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline or respect for authority to cover me!” It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. They used the rope—not that a rope was at all necessary, but because Ann Veronica’s exalted state of mind made the fact of the rope agreeably symbolical; and, anyhow, it did insure a joint death in the event of some remotely possibly mischance. It wailed at Lucy, chubby arms reaching towards her, pleading. Lights gleamed from the lower rooms, and, on a nearer approach to the building, the sound of revelry might be heard from within. Spurlock felt very well pleased with himself.
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