When London Sleeps — page 141: what you’re looking at

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136° TWO WOMEN AND A MAN. ‘Vou seem to forget the reward for your share of the work,’’ he said, insinuatingly. Instantly there was a change in Hilda’s manner. ~ *No!l no!’ she exclaimed, passionately. ‘‘Let me think only of that, and I shall be adamant. Money, my child, and the man I love.”? ‘* All shall be yours.”’ She Jooked at him as if she would read: his very soul. “You swear it ?”? “On my word of honor.’ Knowing Haynes as she did, the ghastly sarcasm of this declaration was only too apparent to her. ‘“Honor!’’ she repeated, with a scornful curl of her too red lip. ‘‘Between us two honor is but an empty word.’? 4 ae Again the captain’s ire nearly got the better of him, but, before he could reply, there appeared a flunkey in a livery of scarlet; an appropriate color for the house. | ‘‘A Miss Carruthers desires to see the mistress,’’ he said. Haynes’ anger vanished, to be replaced by a fiend- ish joy, the sort of delight that Satan must feel as he sees a soul gradually drifting within his power. ‘At last!” he exclaimed. ‘‘Admit her!?? Then, turning to Hilda, he said rapidly and com- mandinegly : 7 No faltering now! Go into the Jarge supper room. We’lllet her get a taste of Helliwell Mansion before she sees ‘us,”? oO (e) =) Cr icbooks.co