But though the shot took effect, as was evident from the stains on the ground, the villain escaped. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. “It was only yesterday I had your letter, and you never mentioned coming over. And, thrusting a piece of iron into his mouth, he forced him out of the room. That’s why I come to tell you. Wood. She decided to call in the help of Teddy Widgett, or, failing him, of one of his sisters. Small, but eminently serviceable. Faugh!” She took up the last morsel of roll, and held it delicately between her long slim fingers. Did you not hear the shot?’ ‘I ain’t saying as I didn’t hear no shot,’ Trodger said carefully, peering at her out of eyes narrowed with interest, ‘but what I do say is, it’s mighty peculiar you saying as how there’s a Frenchman in the case, when it’s as plain as the nose on your face that you’re a Frenchwoman yourself. Melusine got to her feet and, tucking her shoulder under his arm on the uninjured side, put her arm about him to hold his waist, and thus contrived to take most of his weight.
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