Something he
saw there had a curious effect upon him. Courtlaw found himself ushered without questions into Annabel’s long low
drawing-room, fragrant with flowers and somewhat to his surprise, crowded with
guests. “Oh, I can’t
thank you. ’ Then memory hit and he stared at his
friend. ”
“Do you mean,” Courtlaw asked, “that from now to the end of the six months
you do not wish to see us—any of us?”
Her eyes were a little dim again. But she made no answer. ”
Anna nodded. ”
She smiled grimly at the recollection of that lunch—tea and roll at a cheap café. ” She said. She saw her life before her robbed of all generous illusions, the
wrappered life unwrappered forever, vistas of dull responses, crises of makebelieve, years of exacting mutual disregard in a misty garden of fine sentiments. He thrust the smaller weapon
into a scabbard that hung from his belt. And for twelve years he has been so; until his long security, well-nigh
obliterating remembrance of the deed, has bred almost a sense of innocence
within his breast. This sum, claimed by Wild under the statute 4th
and 5th of William and Mary, entitled "An act for encouraging the apprehending
of Highwaymen," was granted to him by the court.
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