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I assure you I have arranged the details to the best of my ability." "Nothing more could be desired, I am sure," he confessed, surprised at her tone, and glancing toward her. "I certainly am left completely in the dark, unable even to clearly distinguish my mysterious companion in adventure." "And there really is no longer any occasion for such concealment."
In a place like Chad, where there were all manner of outbuildings, sheds, and lofts; to say nothing of all the corners and hiding places within the house itself, it would be very tempting to take refuge in one of these nooks and crannies, and to trust to the chance of concealment rather than run the gauntlet of meeting foes in the open.
Oh, he knew the game when of old no shadow was too deep, no ruse of concealment too furtive, to veil a love moment. After all, humans were like flowers, he meditated. Under the radiance from the lighted lanai, ere entering the irritating movement of life again to which he belonged, he paused to stare, scarcely seeing, at a flaunt of display of scarlet double-hibiscus blooms.
Therese de Fontenay knew, and every one knew, that she was already sentenced, even if her sentence was not yet written down and countersigned. It was recorded in the heart of Robespierre. He had sentenced her, without any concealment. She had but a few weeks more to endure the martyrdom, the anguish of hope and of expectation.
The nearest town, and that was but a fisher village, was at a distance of six or seven. For ten miles of length, and from a depth varying from three miles to half a mile, this belt of barren country lay along the sea. The beach, which was the natural approach, was full of quicksands. Indeed, I may say there is hardly a better place of concealment in the United Kingdom.
Since his dark sin toward Adah he had felt unworthy to touch it, but now that he was doing what he could to atone, he surely might look at it, and unlocking the trunk where it was hidden, he took it from its concealment and opened it reverently, half wondering what he should read first, and if it would have any reference to his present position.
"There is something something about him in the paper," said Carlotta. "He is a British officer." In the face of her intuition further concealment appeared useless. Besides, sooner or later she would have to know. "He is a British officer no longer, dear," said I. "Is he dead?"
Whether he dragged out a wretched life in concealment, or was discovered, or gave himself up to justice, Felicita was lost to him.
The next morning while walking in the grounds he quite determined as to the place he would choose for his concealment if he adopted the plan he had thought of the evening before.
"You!" said the detective. "Me," said the Prime Minister. "You have come in regard the kidnapping of the Prince of Wurttemberg?" The Prime Minister started. "How do you know?" he said. The Great Detective smiled his inscrutable smile. "Yes," said the Prime Minister. "I will use no concealment. I am interested, deeply interested.
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