The Mysteries of the Court of London — page 383: what you’re looking at

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ot Te AA TPS MR. SHADBOLT 361 “ Ah, I see you know more than you have chosen to tell me,”’ exclaimed Madame Angelique. ‘ Pray be candid —”’ “Well, you see, ma’am, it would not exactly do for us secret officers to tell everything we do know.” “Tt was a lady, then,” cried Madame Angelique. ‘“ Was it — was it a lady at — at — Bayswater? ” Well, if you push me into a corner,”’ answered Shadbolt, with a look of tipsy knowingness, “it was,’’ — but let the reader understand well that the fellow was in reality in entire ignorance respecting the source of that information which had been sent to the commissioners of police. He took his departure, and Madame Angelique hastened back to thé room where she had left the Duke of Marchmont. Although the matter had ended satisfactorily to a certain extent, and even more so than she had at first dared hope when the terrible term “ detective officer ’’ smote upon her ears, yet she was still labouring under a considerable degree of agitation, and the Duke of Marchmont was instantaneously struck by her appearance. “Something new?” he exclaimed, petulantly. ‘ Mis- fortunes never come alone; they strike us blow upon blow. But what is it? ”’ Madame Angelique explained everything that had taken place, not forgetting to add how she had wormed out (as she really believed she had done) the admission from Isaac Shadbolt that it was a lady at Bayswater who had given the information to the police commissioners. This piece of intelligence astonished Marchmont. Indora had given him to understand, when at Oaklands, that there would be no exposure, and this assurance he had considered to include an equal exception of Madame Angelique from the wreaking of vengeance. In fact, he had not really dreaded law pro- ceedings or any such signs of Indora’s wrath at all, though on this evening of which we are writing, he had suffered Madame Angelique to believe the contrary, simply because he sought to work upon her fears, bend her to his purpose, and induce her to combine with him in some plot against the Eastern lady. But from the intelligence he had just received, it appeared to be unquestionable that Indora was positively setting herself to work to inflict chastisement upon Madame Angelique. “‘ But how on earth,” he exclaimed, “‘ could Indora have ECORNICLOO SS (CE) mM