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"Of course it doesn't smell very nice," said Lyra. She pushed open the door of the office, and finding its first apartment empty, led the way with Annie to the inner room, where her husband sat writing at a table. "George, I want to introduce you to Miss Kilburn." "Oh yes, yes, yes," said her husband, scrambling to his feet, and coming round to greet Annie.
John's Wood Road, and ran headlong from this unendurable stillness towards Kilburn. I hid from the night and the silence, until long after midnight, in a cabmen's shelter in Harrow Road. But before the dawn my courage returned, and while the stars were still in the sky I turned once more towards Regent's Park.
In the Sud express travelling between Madrid and Paris he had drugged and robbed an Italian jeweller of a wallet containing a quantity of diamonds, which he took to London at once and disposed of to a receiver of stolen property at Kilburn. Another of his daring exploits was the theft of the famous Murillo from the Castle of Setefillas, near Seville.
Miss Kilburn caught the glimmer of a cross where he beckoned, through the flutter of the foliage. "They had to razee the steeple some to git their cross on," he added; and then he showed her the high-school building as they passed, and the Episcopal chapel, of blameless church-warden's Gothic, half hidden by its Japanese ivy, under a branching elm, on another side street.
The music ceased, and the last act of the play began. Before it ended, Idella had fallen asleep, and Annie sat still with her after the crowd around her began to break up. Mrs. Savor kept her seat beside Annie. She said, "Don't you want I should spell you a little while, Miss Kilburn?" She leaned over the face of the sleeping child. "Why, she ain't much more than a baby!
As she remained standing there, Mr. Brandreth came round the corner of the house, looking very bright and happy. "Miss Kilburn," he said abruptly, "I want you to congratulate me. I'm engaged to Miss Chapley." "Are you indeed, Mr. Brandreth? I do congratulate you with all my heart. She is a lovely girl." "Yes, it's all right now," said Mr. Brandreth.
"They don't want me in Kilburn," said he, "the mill men are strikin' there, and the bosses have got armed men on every corner. Oh, the capitalists are watchin' for me, all right." I cannot convey the strange excitement I felt. It seemed as though these words suddenly opened a whole new world around me a world I had heard about for years, but never entered.
She and Father put their heads together, and I had begun to feel in my bones that an invitation for me from Mrs. Kilburn was to be hinted at, when Mrs. Dalziel came to the rescue. Her husband had gone back to New York long ago, and she and Milly had been wondering ever since Tony's orders came, whether it might be feasible to follow him to El Paso, and "see what was doing there."
She folded her hands at her waist, and stood up very straight, looking firmly at Mrs. Munger, who made a show of taking a new grip of her senses as she sank unbidden into a chair. "Why, what do you mean, Miss Kilburn?" "It seems to me that I needn't say." "Why, but you must! You must, you know. I can't be left so! I must know where I stand! I must be sure of my ground!
Brandreth rose again, and put out his hand. "Then you will help us?" "Oh, I don't know about that yet." "At least you won't hinder us?" "Certainly not." "Then I consider you in a very hopeful condition, Miss Kilburn, and I feel that I can safely leave you to Mrs. Munger. She is coming to see you as soon as she gets back."
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