" So saying, he raised a whistle to his lips, and blew a loud call; and, as this was unanswered, another still louder. Here I am. “I really do not believe,” he announced with satisfaction, “that any one would recognize me. But she was only able to save a corner of the letter. As she learned more and more of his knowledge, she began to realize how much faith and trust he invested in her. Finally she decided upon a step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. She was aware of people—her aunt, her father, her fellow-students, friends, and neighbors— moving about outside this glowing secret, very much as an actor is aware of the dim audience beyond the barrier of the footlights. “My name is certainly Pellissier,” she said, “but I am very sorry—I do not recognize you in the least. She looked more than her sixty odd years, in spite of a still lush head of black hair, streaked with a little grey, which was visible under her cap and of immediate interest to Gerald. ‘Well, sir, if I’ve to choose betwixt him and you, I’ll take you, no question. His face, as he looked down where his hand sought for a weapon concealed in her petticoat, was so close that she could see only the line of his firm jaw, the drag of his powdered hair that drew it into the military pigtail, and the black ribbon that adorned it. I deemed it more prudent to send him to the Dark House than to bring him here, in case of any search after him by his adoptive father—the carpenter Wood. It was one of the most educational disillusionments in Ann Veronica’s career. “No,” she answered, reluctantly.
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