Her Faithful Knight — page 264: what you’re looking at

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260. His Liege Lady. Do you wish to avoid arrest, or will you face the whole thing and prove its falseness now?” She moved her head restlessly. “T have told you,” she said with a touch of impatience, “that whatever happens I cannot and will not face that man. I would rather kill myself.” He saw that she was trembling all over, and he dared not press the point in her present agitated condition. “And Cresswell?” he said. “If you wish to avoid arrest you and she must not be seen together.” “‘She can be sent to her sister’s at Acton, or back to her brother’s cottage at Ham.” “Was it from Ham that you wrote to the lawyer yes- terday?” “Ves.” “Then the postmark might be a guide to her hiding place. She had better go to Acton.” “T will send her there at once. Please turn the cab back to the station.” Aylmer obeyed, and almost in silence the pair drove back whence they had come. Just inside the door of the underground station Mr. Reade detected through the fog the small, insignificant figure of Cresswell. Going to her, he told her briefly that her mistress was in a cab waiting to speak to her, and led her to the spot. A few hurried directions, the transfer of some money from Dorothy’s purse to that of Creswell, and the latter was piloted by the tall, young man, whom she supposed to be “one of her mistress’s lawyers,’ down the station steps, on to the platform and into the Acton train, the tall young man having taken her ticket for that place. “T want to tell you,’ Dorothy said when he returned to her, “that I have been thinking deeply. And if this—this horrible desecration of which you told me—is to take COMNIELIXOOK<SaEO