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A roomy , comfortable, old-fashioned house in Bayswater, with high windows, big rooms, and little balconies just big enough to hold a wealth of flowers in summer and a very pretty show of evergreens …
It was two months later than this meeting, and nearly eight months after his first meeting with Rachel Davison, when Gerard Buckland, as he was “doing” the Academy with a listless air on a hot after…
The incident happened so quickly, the appearance and disappearance from Gerard’s sight of the disguised Rachel had been so sudden, so rapid, so quiet, that it seemed as if the whole affair had been …
Gerard had made up his mind about the Brighton expedition even while he was talking to Lady Jennings. He was full of conflicting thoughts, hopes, and fears. On the one hand there was the assurance o…
There was a long pause when this exclamation escaped the lips of Miss Davison. She sat back, trembling and silent, staring out before her as if unconscious of the presence of Gerard Buckland, who, h…
The hansom went quickly through the streets, and took them, as Gerard had said, to that quiet northern end of the park where scarcely a breath of the world’s life is ever drawn. They got out and wan…
Gerard felt sick with alarm. A shop-lifter! Although he was ashamed of his own fears, they overpowered him. He asked himself what right he had to connect the arrest of a well-known shop-lifter with …
Gerard arrived at Lady Jennings’ house at an awkward hour, and felt rather diffident as to the sort of message he should give, as he knew it would be dinner-time, so that he could not very well ask …
Gerard was puzzled; he had long since ceased to be capable of horror at anything he saw done in connection with Rachel Davison. He did not even feel sure that she had been arrested; for he knew by t…
Now Gerard Buckland, although he was very much in love, was not a fool. And it was not necessary to consider very deeply the facts connected with the brilliant Rachel Davison’s existence to feel qui…
