” He said. ’
‘Very true. One reason,
perhaps, of his success in this case might be, that having arrested his associate in
the dark transaction, Sir Rowland Trenchard, on a charge of high treason, he was
favoured by Walpole, who found his account in retaining such an agent. At the door through which she had entered the room stood the so-called
Monsieur Valade. There was a short, red-faced,
resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his
father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had
an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with
complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer
supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that
her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the
normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude
and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like
diamonds, return to his own place. He told her something about
music, the great world outside. She did not care that vampire children are
abominations. From this spot a road, more resembling
the drive through a park than a public thoroughfare, led him gradually to the
brow of Dollis Hill. One
cannot successfully argue with a drunken man. ‘To
where has he gone off?’
‘No use asking me,’ shrugged the captain.
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