He led her unerringly, pushing her down the narrow stairway that had been the servants’ access to the upper floors, and thence through a small door that led into the chapel. " He then closed the lantern, mounted without much difficulty upon the roof, and proceeded cautiously along the tiles. “She cannot be aware,” he continued, “that she is making herself conspicuous. “Had the pleasure of dining with you at the ‘Ambassador’s’ one night, before the show, you know—last September I think it was. “If you cannot listen to me now it must remain undelivered. Still, her face never betrayed this distraction. The thought passed through his mind even as he started to cross the terrace at a jogtrot, moving to head her off. ” “If you tempt me too much,” she said, after a silence, “I shall do it. Wild was formerly an agent to the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers. He was a square-faced man of nearly fifty, with iron-gray hair a mobile, cleanshaven mouth and rather protuberant black eyes that now scrutinized Ann Veronica. “Do you mean in looks?” she asked. After a brief conversation, which Sheppard sustained with his accustomed liveliness, the old man turned to Bess and addressed a few words of common-place gallantry to her.
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