Part 6 (1/2)
”Let me see,” she muraily:
”Not till I have received compensation for all that I have done and endured”
”Compensation?”
”In the shape of a kiss”
Oh! I won't say that she threw herself in irls, it seems, demur under the circumstances; but she was adorable, coy and tender in turns, pouting and coaxing, and playing like a kitten till she had taken the papers frolish letters over and over, even though she could not read a word of them
Then, Sir, in the midst of her innocent frolic and at the verythe kiss which she had so tantalizingly deniedof the front door
Mr Farewell had coress fro-roo into the very passage where even now Mr Fareas standing, hanging up his hat and cloak on the rack
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We stood hand in hand--Estelle and I--fronting the door through which Mr Fareould presently appear
”To-night we fly together,” I declared
”Where to?” she whispered
”Can you go to the wos?”
”Yes!”
”Then I will take you there to-night To-morroill bewe leave for England”
”Yes, yes!” she e him in conversation,” I continued hurriedly ”You make a dash for the door and run downstairs as fast as you can I'll follow as quickly as may be and meet you under the porte-cochere”
She had only just ti-room was pushed open, and Farewell, unconscious at first of our presence, stepped quietly into the roory when he suddenly caught sight of us both, ”what are you doing here with that lout?”
I was treh Fareas a powerful-looking man, a head taller than I was I stepped boldly forward, covering the adored one with nity, ”has frustrated the land in order to place Madeuardians, Messieurs Pike and Sons, solicitors, of London”
He gave a cry of rage, and before I could retire to some safe entrenchment behind the table or the sofa, he was uponHe had me by the throat, and I had rolled backwards down on to the floor, with hi the breath out of ht that my last hour had come Estelle had run out of the room like a startled hare This, of course, was in accordance withthen that she had been less obedient and so to feel a e scoundrel, whose face I could perceive just above me, distorted with passion, whilst hoarse ejaculations escaped his tre lips:
”You meddlesome fool! You oaf! You toad! This for your interference!” he added as he gave orous punch on the head
I felt er could see distinctly It seemed as if an unbearable pressure upon my chest would finally squeeze the last breath out ofto remember the prayers I used to ht that I was dying, when suddenly, through , hoarse cry, whilst the floor was shaken as with an earthquake The next moment the pressure on my chest seee such as it would be ih it all hoarse and convulsive cries of: ”You shan't hurt hith returned to me I could see as well as hear, and what I saw filled me onder and with pride Wonder at Ma'aiven such power to her hty arms! Aroused from her slumbers by the sound of the scuffle, she had run to the study, only to find me in deadly peril of my life Without a second's hesitation she had rushed on Farewell, seized him by the collar, pulled hiht of her hundred kilos upon hi him helpless