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But Major Alderley might have been an expert for all the sound he made as he
forced the lock with the heavy blade. “There are some people,” he said at last, “who seem fated to carry on their
shoulders the burdens of other people. Gerald did not know who she was, but he knew who she was not. I was in the front row,
and I fancied she smiled at me. She is, in her way, a dear. ”
His eyes were closed. With his arms bare, the neckband of his shirt
tucked in, he laboured. Melusine had confessed this morning, that she had borrowed his horse, that
Jack had met with his accident through her fault. ”
“And in Paris——”
“In Paris,” he interrupted, “she was a very delightful companion, but beyond that
—one did not take her seriously. There was a lapse of time, an interval of blackness; then he found his hand in
hers and she was leading him at a run up the side of the mountain.
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