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The considerations that dictated Lanyard's simple strategy were sound if unformulated: barring interference on the part of the police something he dared not count upon his sole hope lay in open flight and in keeping persistently to the better-lighted, main-travelled thoroughfares, where a repetition of the attempt would be inadvisable at least, less probable.
Sylvia was trying hard to forget Count Paul and his broken promise, and to be her natural self. As they emerged into the better-lighted thoroughfare, where stood a row of carriages, she said, "I will drive with you to the Pension Malfait, Bill." Madame Wachner officiously struck in, "Do not think of driving your friend to the Pension Malfait, dear friend! We will gladly leave Mr. Chester there.
Partington seems to have been able to follow very closely what must have taken place upstairs. It was a very quiet night, here in Turner Road: the roysterers were in the better-lighted streets, and the sober folk were at home. And there was not a footstep on the pavements outside to confuse the little drama of sound that came down to her through the ill-fitting boards overhead.
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